Lord Dunsany Quotes

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.