Richard Le Gallienne

Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne

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Writer · British · 1899–1991

British writer

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Popular Quotes

“Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.”

“There’s too much beauty upon this earthFor lonely men to bear.”

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

“A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention.”

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

“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”

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“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”
— Richard Le Gallienne
critics ego writing

“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 h...”
— Richard Le Gallienne
Time Beauty Evil

“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
Nature Good Evil

“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”
— Richard Le Gallienne
Love Love Is Silent

“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Richard Le Gallienne
Beginning Neighbours

“Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.”
— Richard Le Gallienne

“Yea, howso we dream, Or how bravely we do;The end is the same, Be we traitor or true: And after the bloom And the passion is pastDeath comes at last.”
— Richard Le Gallienne

“Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.”
— Richard Le Gallienne

“There’s too much beauty upon this earthFor lonely men to bear.”
— Richard Le Gallienne

“A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention.”
— Richard Le Gallienne