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In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Life
#Men
#Wise
#Women
#Work
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Emergency
#Laboratory
#Ready
#Service
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Beginning
#Oblivion
#Wholesome
#Wisdom
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Enjoy
#Long Way
#Long
#Way
#Youth
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Air
#Road
#Roads
#Song
#Spring
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
#All Religions
#Fear
#History
#Religion
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Blame
#Know
#Never
#Tragedy
#World
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Beauty
#Evil
#Fear
#Man
#Time
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Enemy
#Friend
#Need
#Science
#Serious
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Forever
#Her
#Meetings
#Nature
#Road
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
#Life
#Right Time
#Right
#Time
#Wild
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
#Experience
#Lose
#Reason
#Time
#Value
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Beauty
#Love Is
#Love
#Never
#Silent
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#City
#Destination
#Lead
#Name
#Roads
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
#Beauty
#Imagination
#Perfect
#Truth
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.
- Richard Le Gallienne
#Evil
#Good
#Greatness
#Jealousy
#Nature
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