6 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne (1868-1943) was a British dramatist and author of many books, including many volumes in the "Chambers's Encyclopaedia" series, and a number of books in collaboration with his wife, Edith Le Gallienne. His most famous book is the autobiography, The Man in the Iron Mask: A Dramatic Interpretation. It remains the only complete account of what happened in the prison at Toulouse where he was held from 1698 until 1703.

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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. Richard Le Gallienne
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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
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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
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The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. Richard Le Gallienne
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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. Richard Le Gallienne