Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

• A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• 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

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  Tags in Long, Enjoy, Off

• 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

• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Spring, Song, Road

• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Jealousy, Human, Evil

• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Spiritual, Important

• The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Silent, Speaks

• Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

  Richard Le Gallienne

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  Tags in Believe, Ever, Another

• Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

  Richard Le Gallienne

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  Tags in Between

• Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.

  Richard Le Gallienne

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  Tags in ideal, Agency

• On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

  Richard Le Gallienne

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  Tags in Best, Woman, Ever

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Ever

• More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

  Richard Le Gallienne

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  Tags in Times, Read, Growing

• Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Friend, Need

• It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Living, Worth, Fine

• 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

  Topics in Beauty, Fear

  Tags in Evil

• In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Women, Fun

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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