Author: Richard Le Gallienne

Quotes

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

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

- Richard Le Gallienne

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

- Richard Le Gallienne

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

- Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

- Richard Le Gallienne

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

- Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

- Richard Le Gallienne

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.

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.

- Richard Le Gallienne

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

- Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

- Richard Le Gallienne

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