"It is curious how, from time immemorial, man……" — Richard Le Gallienne
"It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction."
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Richard Le Gallienne
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29 Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne
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Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.
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Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the…
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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
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Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads…
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A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
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On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.
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Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic…
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Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind…
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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
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All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the…
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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of…
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If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the…
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