6 Quotes by Alice Meynell
- The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
- 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.
- Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
- It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
- 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.
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