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“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”
- 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
“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”
- Le Gallienne
“A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.”
- 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
“It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.”
- 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