49 Quotes by Andrew Lang

Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its queens, its amorous, its cruel, its good, its evil, its odious, its friendly fées.

One gift the fairies gave me ... the love of books, the magic key that opens the enchanted door.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination

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.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.