Andre Norton Quotes

1912–2005 United States

Andre Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction.

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A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.

Dragon Magic (1972)

Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune.

Dragon Magic (1972)

And life in a continual state of apprehension was no life at all.

Here Abide Monsters (1973)

Only darkness could not be held off by the will of men.

Storm Over Warlock (1960)

Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.

Dragon Magic (1972)

Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.

Dragon Magic (1972)

From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster.

Dragon Magic (1972)

Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?

Dragon Magic (1972)

Not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.

Dragon Magic (1972)

They’re females right enough, and they can make the impossible happen. I’d say that classifies them as witches.

Storm Over Warlock (1960)

You can’t play the role of thug all over the galaxy and not store up in the subconscious a fine line of private fears and remembered enemies.

Storm Over Warlock (1960)

Their tribal system is strictly matriarchal, which follows a pattern even Terra once knew: the fertile earth mother and her priestesses, who became the witches when the gods overruled the goddesses.

Storm Over Warlock (1960)

How does one kill a God? With unbelief, my logic told me.

And the opposite of dreams are facts!

Storm Over Warlock (1960)

There was a saying of the peasants—the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.

Dragon Magic (1972)

It is always impossible—he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind—for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him.

The Time Traders (1958)

He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.

Dragon Magic (1972)

Well, we don't know a lot, and most people don't want to learn more’n what's right before their eyes. You point out things that don’t fit into what they've always accepted, and they say it’s all your imagination and nothing like that is real.

Here Abide Monsters (1973)

Mrs. Clapp was some distance away, Jeremiah’s trophy laid across one knee, stroking the cat’s head and telling him what a brave, smart boy he was. Jeremiah accepted this praise complacently, with a feline’s estimate of his own worth.

Here Abide Monsters (1973)

Treasure! That word, which had always been so exciting, meant something different now. Fafnir had taken the treasure and turned from man into monster because of his greed for it. Mimir, who had been Sigurd’s master and good friend—when the treasure had lain before him, he, too, became a monster, in another way. Then Sigurd had made his choice, to leave the evil, and so he had gone away a hero.

Dragon Magic (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andre Norton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.