English - Poet | January 20, 1866 - September 15, 1947
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
ServiceReadyEmergencyRomanceToy
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.
LifeWorkWomenMenFunWise
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
LifeWorthLivingWorth LivingFine
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
LoveWorldGrowingMoreSeeTo Love
On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.
BestWomanBattleFightingMachine
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
LifeNatureManDifferenceReflect
Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.
BelieveReadyWorstNationsEver
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
TimeReligionSpiritualSpaceLaws
Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.
WorkNatureRoadsManTreesThink
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.
BeautyTruthImaginationMystery
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.
NatureMirrorManThinkLongShe
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.
YouthEnjoyLongWayLong WayOff
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Richard Le Gallienne quotes