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Explore our hand-picked selection of 24 inspiring quotes by Lord Dunsany.

About Lord Dunsany

  • Born: July 24, 1878
  • Died: October 25, 1957
  • Occupation: Writer
    • If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?
    Stars Men Thinking
    Contrast is the dramatist's method.
    Method Contrast
    It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
    Hours Born Insects
    Modern poets are bells of lead. they should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
    Bells Poet Modern
    Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
    Memories Imagination Bricks
    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.
    Imagination Needs Becoming
    And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.
    Light Sight Wind
    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.
    Heart Two Gone
    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.
    Dream Home Men
    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.
    Travel Moon Thinking
    It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
    Technology Men Knows
    It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in england it is little batons, in france swords, in many countries revolvers, and in russia the police used to have artillery.
    Country Russia Law
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