Richard Le Gallienne Quotes


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



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



What of the Darkness? Is it very fair? - Richard Le Gallienne



We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. - Richard Le Gallienne



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



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