Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
Alice Meynell's selected quotes:
Alice Meynell about Life:
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that ...
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Alice Meynell about Life:
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered ...
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Alice Meynell about Change:
Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew ...
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Alice Meynell about Humor:
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the ...
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Alice Meynell about Eyes:
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is ...
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Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
Alice Meynell's Quotes
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Alice Meynell about Happiness:
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Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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Alice Meynell about Life:
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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.
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Alice Meynell about Nature:
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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Alice Meynell about Eyes:
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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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Alice Meynell about Change:
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results, we value it in the act.
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Alice Meynell about Change:
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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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Alice Meynell about Travel:
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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.
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Alice Meynell about Humor:
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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Alice Meynell about Life:
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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.
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Alice Meynell about Life:
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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
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