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....

And then he went in the evening up to the nursery and told the boy how his mother was gone for a while....

And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast....

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 I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different....

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

Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those....

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened....