Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jealousy, Human, Evil

• 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

  Topics in Beauty, Truth

  Tags in Through

• Though actually the work of man’s hands – or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, – roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Come, Long

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spring, Song, Road

• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Enjoy, Off

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Long

• Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Wild

Richard Le Gallienne (27)

Birth:	20th January, 1866
Death:	15th September, 1947
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Poet

About

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne was his daughter, by his second marriage.

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