Alice Meynell Quotes (15 Quotes)

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

I must not think of thee and, tired yet strong, I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, And in the sweetest passage of a song.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

I come from nothing but from wherecome the undying thoughts I bear.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

She walks - the lady of my delight - A shepherdess of sheep.

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of

Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now but it will suffer again next week or next year.