Quote

You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

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
Bows
Occasionally
Logic
Poet
Point
Must
Even

More quotes by Lloyd Alexander

Image
Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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
If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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
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
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd Alexander
Image
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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
If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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
There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
Find what you want. I will find you.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
There's this huge number of desperate people.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
Image
A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
Lloyd Alexander