Quotes by : Lord Dunsany

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

Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they....

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what....

On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared....

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

There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it....

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before....

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that....

Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed....

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