Richard Le Gallienne

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

— Richard Le Gallienne

You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

— Richard Le Gallienne

There’s too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.

— 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

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the…

— 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

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly…

— 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…

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful…

— 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…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“She's somewhere in the sunlight strong, / Her tears are in the falling rain, / She calls me in the wind's soft…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“What long-dead face makes here the grass so green? On what earth-buried bosom do we lean? Ah! love, when we in turn…

— Richard Le Gallienne

Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul -…

— Richard Le Gallienne

To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“I meant to do my work today but . . .”

— Richard Le Gallienne

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

— Richard Le Gallienne

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“So I be written in the Book of Love, I have no care about that book above; Erase my name, or write…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“Would you seek beauty, seek it underground; Would you find strength - the strong are underground; And would you next year seek…

— Richard Le Gallienne

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“Like to a maid who exquisitely turns A promising face to him who, waiting, burns In hell to hear her answer -…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“Some say we came God's purpose to fulfil - Faith a poor purpose then, if so you will; Sport for the heavenly…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“The soul is but senses catching fire, Marvellous music of the body's lyre, - The angel senses are the silver strings Stirred…

— 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…

— Richard Le Gallienne