Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Galliennewas an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Galliennewas his daughter, by his second marriage...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
lonely men earth
There’s too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.
oblivion neighbour
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
romance emergencies toys
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.
smile love-is speak
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
hands romance enemy
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.
beauty womens-beauty missions
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
jealousy mean greatness
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.
fighting battle machines
On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.
hands forever promise
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.
perseverance stars light
Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.
life skills interesting
How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!