It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. Richard Le Gallienne excessfinelife Change image and share on social
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. Richard Le Gallienne beautylovesilent Change image and share on social
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 enemyfancyfriend share on social
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 featurefootgrow share on social
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 artlifeoat Change image and share on social
Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. Richard Le Gallienne badnationrace Change image and share on social
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 accretionexperiencefancy Change image and share on social
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 calumnyearevil Change image and share on social
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 attractionbeautycurious share on social
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. Richard Le Gallienne beginneighbouroblivion Change image and share on social
