--- title: "1 Taken Lightly Quotes By Vernon Lee" description: "1 Taken Lightly quotes by Vernon Lee. Plus more from Vernon Lee and more Taken Lightly sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/vernon-lee-30336_ghosts_if-there-are-such-things-as-ghosts-he-re_2031621.png" --- > [“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, except as a warning or a punishment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/if-there-are-such-things-as-ghosts-he-replied-i-don-t-think-they/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/vernon-lee-30336_ghosts_if-there-are-such-things-as-ghosts-he-re_2031621.png) ## More by Vernon Lee > [The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/the-greatest-pleasure-of-reading-consists-in-re-reading/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/despite-our-complicated-civilization-so-called-or-perhaps-on-account/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/mankind-may-be-divided-into-playgoers-and-not-playgoers/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/art-is-the-expression-of-a-man-s-life-of-his-mode-of-being-of-his/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/a-deal-of-the-world-s-sound-happiness-is-lost-through-shyness/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/there-is-too-little-courtship-in-the-world-for-courtship-means-a-wish/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/if-there-are-such-things-as-ghosts-he-replied-i-don-t-think-they/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/what-being-at-leisure-means-is-more-easily-felt-than-defined/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/there-is-an-unlucky-tendency-to-allow-every-new-invention-to-add-to/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/things-in-this-world-are-very-roughly-averaged-and-although-averaging/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/leisure-requires-the-evidence-of-our-own-feelings-because-it-is-not/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/as-towards-most-other-things-of-which-we-have-but-little-personal/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [“The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/the-fact-is-that-having-once-seen-alice-oke-in-the-reality-it-was/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [There is no end to the deceits of the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/there-is-no-end-to-the-deceits-of-the-past/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-lee/poets-are-privileged-to-utter-more-than-they-can-always-quite-explain/) [Vernon Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-lee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/taken-lightly/vernon-lee/#itemlist", "name": "1 Taken Lightly Quotes By Vernon Lee", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If there are such things as ghosts,\" he replied, \"I don't think they should be taken lightly. 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