"We have, of course, long since ceased to……" — 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 she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man."
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Richard Le Gallienne
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29 Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
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