Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that…

— 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

“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

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

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

“If in this shadowland of life thou hast Found one true heart to love thee, hold it fast; Love it again, give…

— Richard Le Gallienne

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how…

— 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 myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of…

— Richard Le Gallienne

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the…

— 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

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed…

— Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to…

— 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

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— 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

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.

— 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

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

— 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