Quotes by : Lord Dunsany

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to....

Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of....

Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious....

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

Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey....

Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights....

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness....

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this....

There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to....

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