Richard Le Gallienne

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ego #writing #men

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

#neighbours #oblivion #wholesome #wisdom

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

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#book #each #eras #fear #history

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#bourne #city #destination #eternal #even

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

#great #her #missions #woman

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#comrades #consequence #diminished #each #fun

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fine #life #living #make #worth

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#best #contrary #equipped #ever #fighting