Richard Le Gallienne Quotes - Page 2

• The soul's a sort of sentimental wife,
  That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Wife, Soul, Sentimental

  Richard Le Gallienne (1966). “Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthology”

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• 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

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Journey

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Hands, Romance, Enemy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Wise, Easter, Heart

  Richard Le Gallienne (1913). “The lonely dancer: and other poems”

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• 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

  Romance, Emergencies, Toys

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Fancy, Gains, Reason

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Men, Differences, Seeming

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• 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

  Wise, Fun, Men

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Men, Ideas, Evil

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Passion, World, Growing

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Perfect, Imagination, Elements

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• All wines are by their very nature full of reminiscence, the golden tears and red blood of summers that are gone.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Summer, Wine, Blood

  Richard Le Gallienne (2008). “The Quest of the Golden Girl”, p.30, Wildside Press LLC

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