Andrew Lang quotes
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“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”
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“You can cover a great deal of country in books.”
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“O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria
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“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.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2012). “Adventures Among Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag
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“...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.”
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“Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.”
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“Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.”
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“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.”
-- Andrew LangSource : 'Brahma'.
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“Life's more amusing than we thought.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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“He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.”
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“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation
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“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.”
-- Andrew LangSource : 1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).
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“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.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2015). “Ballads in Blue China”, p.35, Library of Alexandria
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“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.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (1892). “The Library”, p.11, Library of Alexandria
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“And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.”
-- Andrew LangSource : "The Complete Coloured Fairy Books".
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“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2012). “The Making Of Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag
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“Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2015). “The Yellow Fairy Book”, p.4, Booklassic
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“Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.”
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“Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.”
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“. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.”
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Andrew Lang
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