Andrew Lang quotes

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. (Andrew Lang)
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. View quote
Andrew Lang
You can cover a great deal of country in books. View quote
Andrew Lang
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. View quote
Andrew Lang
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. View quote
Andrew Lang
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. View quote
Andrew Lang
O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers. View quote
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They hear like ocean on a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey. View quote
Andrew Lang
If indeed there be a god in heaven. View quote
Andrew Lang
The windy lights of Autumn flare; I watch the moonlit sails go by; I marvel how men toil and fare, The weary business that they play! Their voyaging is vanity, And fairy gold is all their gain, And all the winds of winter cry, "My Love returns no more again.”. View quote
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Here's a pot with a cot in a park In a park where the peach-blossoms blew, Where the lovers eloped in the dark, Lived, died and were changed into two Bright birds that eternally flew Through the boughs of the may, as they sang; 'T is a tale was undoubtedly true In the reign of the Emperor Hwang. (Andrew Lang)
Life's more amusing than we thought. View quote
Andrew Lang
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. View quote
Andrew Lang