Andrew Lang Quotes

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife...

Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyl...

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancien...

And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at least s...

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your...

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one ...

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrus...

It takes all sorts to make a world,” some are soldiers from the cradle, some merchants, some orators...

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. The...

And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

You can cover a great deal of country in books.