Andrew Lang Quotes

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

I fear nothing when I am doing right, ' said Jack.'Then, ' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.