Richard Le Gallienne Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Richard Le Gallienne quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.
“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”
“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.”
“Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.”
“A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.”
“If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.”
“All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.”
“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.”
“On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.”
“Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.”
“Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.”
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