Richard Le Gallienne Quotes & Sayings

“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.”

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”

“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”

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

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

“All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.”

“Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.”

“Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.”

“Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.”

“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”