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Top 25 Andrew Lang Quotes (2025 Update)

Andrew Lang Quote: “Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.”

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

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Andrew Lang Quote: “A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.”

2. “A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.”

3. “An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.”

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

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Andrew Lang Quote: “I’d leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”

5. “I’d leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.”

6. “Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.”

9. “Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “Life’s more amusing than we thought.”

10. “Life’s more amusing than we thought.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “You can cover a great deal of country in books.”

11. “You can cover a great deal of country in books.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “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?”

13. “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?”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “One gift the fairies gave me... the love of books, the magic key that opens the enchanted door.”

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

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Andrew Lang Quote: “My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate.”

15. “My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: ‘Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.’ These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.”

16. “But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: ‘Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.’ These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.”

18. “Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “She believes that I love her!” cried the King. “What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?” “You know best,” answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. “When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.”

19. “She believes that I love her!” cried the King. “What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?” “You know best,” answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. “When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.”

20. “Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.”

21. “The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.”

22. “He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.”

23. “Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “What children do love is ghost stories.”

24. “What children do love is ghost stories.”

— Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang Quote: “Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.”

25. “Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.”

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Andrew Lang Quote: “And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.”

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

— Andrew Lang

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