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They hear like ocean on a western beachThe surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
— Andrew Lang
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Andrew Lang
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, children's writer, essayist, collector of fairy tales, writer, folklorist, scholar, novelist, fairy tale scholar
1844 – 1912
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
All Quotes by Andrew Lang
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If indeed there be a god in heaven.
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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
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
— Andrew Lang
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There’s a joy without canker or cark,Of china that’s ancient and blue.
— Andrew Lang
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Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
— Andrew Lang
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Life's more amusing than we thought.
— Andrew Lang