Quote

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.

Lloyd Alexander

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Time
Killed
Life
Slow
Killing
Waste
Already
Dwell
Wish
Suggest
Death
Poison
Men
Revenge

More quotes by Lloyd Alexander

Image
The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
Lloyd Alexander
Image
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd Alexander
Image
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.
Lloyd Alexander