48 Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.