Alice Meynell Quotes

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

No mirror keeps its glances ...

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

O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.

From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour.

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

I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

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

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.

O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

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

Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Solitude is separate experience.

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

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