Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us. — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“If there are such things as ghosts," he replied, "I don't think they should be taken lightly. God would not permit them to be,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling;… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind.… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
