"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?"

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Source : Andrew Lang (2015). “The Yellow Fairy Book”, p.4, Booklassic

Andrew Lang

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Greek Quotes

“What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?”
“Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.”
“It is an offence to pay for sex with someone controlled for gain.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Lysistrata: Oh, CalonicÃ©, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...CalonicÃ©: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.CalonicÃ©: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.”
“I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.”
“I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.”
“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.”
“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”

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