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
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
