"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
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Richard Le Gallienne
- "A woman’s beauty is one of her great missions."
- "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."
- "The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct."
More In Beauty
- "Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all."― Rosa Luxemburg
- "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."― Joseph Wood Krutch
- "I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in."― Martha Plimpton