Richard Llewellyn

“The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.”

— Richard Llewellyn

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

— Richard Llewellyn

“As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“... the nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.”

— Richard Llewellyn

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was…

— Richard Llewellyn

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

— Richard Llewellyn

“It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for…

— Richard Llewellyn

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard…

— Richard Llewellyn

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and…

— Richard Llewellyn

“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”

— Richard Llewellyn

“She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory.…

— Richard Llewellyn

“And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would…

— Richard Llewellyn

“But to talk of the world that is hidden in every woman is a journey of pain, for the words are not…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Dear little house that I have lived in, there is happiness you have seen, even before I was born. In you is…

— Richard Llewellyn

“I saw what he was afraid of doing and I had sympathy, for however hard we fought, we must be beaten by…

— Richard Llewellyn

“O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a…

— Richard Llewellyn

“I want you all to think not only of yourselves and your families but everybody else who is alive. We are all…

— Richard Llewellyn

“There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at…

— Richard Llewellyn

“In that quietness they were speaking their own language, with their eyes, with the way they stood, with what they put into…

— Richard Llewellyn

“How quiet is the house when the mistress has gone. You walk in, and the same smell is a comfort to you,…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Well,” my father said to her, and looked at her. “Well,” my mother said to him, and looked at him. In that…

— Richard Llewellyn

“So I kissed her, and went out, and up on top of the mountain to have peace, for I had a grudge…

— Richard Llewellyn

“I also have a world, is it? And I will have whoever I say to share it. Ivor it was, first, because…

— Richard Llewellyn

“She is a slut," I said, "because she went up on the mountain with a man, instead of to bed with her…

— Richard Llewellyn

“What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a…

— Richard Llewellyn

“It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by…

— Richard Llewellyn

“There is a wholeness about a woman, of shape, and sound, and colour, and taste, and smell, a quietness that is her,…

— Richard Llewellyn

“There is strange, and yet not strange, is the kiss. It is strange because it mixes silliness with tragedy, and yet not…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work. There was nothing to do outside…

— Richard Llewellyn

“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my…

— Richard Llewellyn

“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.”

— Richard Llewellyn

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

— Richard Llewellyn

“Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work.”

— Richard Llewellyn

O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

— Richard Llewellyn

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

— Richard Llewellyn