Unexpected Quotes by Alice Meynell

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

— Alice Meynell

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign…

— Alice Meynell

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place,…

— Alice Meynell

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

— Alice Meynell

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years…

— Alice Meynell

O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know…

— Alice Meynell

recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week…

— Alice Meynell

Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of…

— Alice Meynell

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

— Alice Meynell

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.

— Alice Meynell

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

— Alice Meynell

Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as…

— Alice Meynell