Brian Froud Quotes

“The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.”

“Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world…”

“We enter the world alone we leave it alone.”

“Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.”

“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”

“The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.”

“Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.”

“You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge one for yourself.”