The Blessing of Pan Quotes

“Ivy dreams sullenly and alone of overthrowing the cities.”
― Lord Dunsany, The Blessing of Pan

“For if old women gossiping at evening as the ages go by, spin wisdom as the spider in old barns spins gossamer, then Mrs. Tichener had a great store of wisdom, in which little ancient facts were caught up as is dust in the spider’s web. And if these things are all vanity, what are we?”
― Lord Dunsany, The Blessing of Pan