Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

All Wines Are By Their Very Nature Full Of Reminiscence, The Golden Tears And Red Blood Of Summers That Are Gone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Races And Nations Are Thus Ever Ready To Believe The Worst Of One Another.

All Myths That Are Something More Than Fancies Gain Rather Than Lose In Value With Time, By Reason Of The Accretions Of Human Experience.

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.

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."

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.

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.