Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn never become great saints.”

“Innovators are inevitably controversial.”

“What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.”

“What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.”

“Innovators are inevitably controversial.”

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