Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne

About Richard Le Gallienne:

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.
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On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

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

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Le Gallienne

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

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

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

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

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Richard Le Gallienne

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

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Le Gallienne
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornJanuary 20, 1866
  • DiedSeptember 15, 1947
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet