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Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

Richard Le Gallienne quotes

English Poet January 20, 1866 – September 15, 1947

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. Richard Le Gallienne
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne quote: "A woman's beauty is one of her great missions."
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. Richard Le Gallienne
She's somewhere in the sunlight strong, / Her tears are in the falling rain, / She calls me in the wind's soft song, / And with the flowers she comes again. Richard Le Gallienne
Were I a woman, I would all day long. Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say 'I am a woman' all day long. Richard Le Gallienne
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. Richard Le Gallienne
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne quote: "On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine..."
On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. Richard Le Gallienne
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. Richard Le Gallienne
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. Richard Le Gallienne
Some say we came God's purpose to fulfil -Faith a poor purpose then, if so you will; Sport for the heavenly huntsmen, others say, -Sorry the sport, methinks, and poor the skill. Richard Le Gallienne
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. Richard Le Gallienne
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it. Richard Le Gallienne
WAKE! for the sun, the shepherd of the sky, Has penned the stars within their fold on high, And, shaking darkness from his mighty limbs, Scatters the daylight from his burning eye. Richard Le Gallienne
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. Richard Le Gallienne

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