Richard Le Gallienne

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #christianity #done #founder #ideals

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#difference #how #indeed #life #man

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#believe #ever #nations #races #ready

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

#itself #love #love is #never #silent

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#conduct #element #important #laws #mundane

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

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination

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

#any #ceased #concern #course #imagine

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

#get #life #oats #right #right time

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

#enjoy #even #fact #however #long