Quotes by Algernon Blackwood

"The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray."

"When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us."

"No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory."