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List of Andrew Lang Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 21 inspiring quotes by Andrew Lang.

About Andrew Lang

  • Born: March 31, 1844
  • Died: July 20, 1912
  • Occupation: Poet
    • 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.
    Thinking Ideas Culture
    Of all animals, he alone attains to the contemplative life.
    Cat Animal Contemplative Life
    . . . 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.
    Sea Fishing Rivers
    Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.
    Wise Men Bunkers
    And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.
    Fear Remember Danger
    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?
    Believe People Greek
    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.
    Research Tradition Enough
    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.
    Book Reading Writing
    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.
    Book Years Faces
    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.
    Blue Joy Ancient
    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.
    Dream Men Laughing
    Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
    Illumination Drunk Support
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