Lord Dunsany
6 quotes
Biography
"Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress."
"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 into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets' fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people's hopes. Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men's fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been."
"The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man."
"It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came."
"Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes."