Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Keep
Lucian
Good
Nodded
Tick
Heroic
Showing
Catch
Mercy
Anybody
Smiting
More quotes by Lloyd Alexander
Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
Lloyd Alexander
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Lloyd Alexander
Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
Lloyd Alexander
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
Lloyd Alexander
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
Lloyd Alexander
A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
Lloyd Alexander
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd Alexander
For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
Lloyd Alexander
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
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
Lloyd Alexander
There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
Lloyd Alexander
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
If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
Lloyd Alexander
...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.
Lloyd Alexander
Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
Lloyd Alexander
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
Lloyd Alexander
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
Lloyd Alexander
Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
Lloyd Alexander
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
She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
Lloyd Alexander
