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Alice Meynell Quotes (1847-1922)
Author, Writer, Poet
About Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
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“Solitude is separate experience.”
“A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.”
“ I am dark but fair,
Black but fair.”
Black but fair.”
“London visibly works at nothing but transformation.”
“What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere?”
“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”
“[T]here is something graver than to be immortal, and that is to be mortal.”
“[I]t is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual.”
“From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight
And go with the hour.”
A flock of bells take flight
And go with the hour.”
“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.”
“The worst of all reasons for continuing anything is that it is easily continuable.”
“O daisy mine, what will it be to look
From God's side even of such a simple thing?”
From God's side even of such a simple thing?”
“I came from nothing; but from where
Come these undying thoughts I bear?”
Come these undying thoughts I bear?”
“Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers,
Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.”
Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.”
“Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.”
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Alice Meynell on Children 4 quotes
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“It is for fear of the grown-up, or at least out of respect towards them, that a chapter must be given to fairies. If the children do not care very much for fairies, they must be made to care. "Who is to care if they do not? Who is to be properly childlike if they are not?"”
Alice Meynell on Mediocrity
“What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere?”
Alice Meynell on Compassion
“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”
Alice Meynell on Religion
“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”
Alice Meynell on Spirituality
“It is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual.”
Alice Meynell on Laughter
Alice Meynell on Affectation
“An English wit has well said that affectation displeases us because it has not too much, but too little, art.”
Alice Meynell on Anger
“Hamlet, being a little mad, feigned madness. It is when I am angry that I pretend to be angry, so as to present the truth in an obvious and intelligible form.”
Alice Meynell on Sheep
“She walks — the lady of my delight — A shepherdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.”
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Alice Meynell on Edward Gibbon
“Is it perhaps Gibbon with his Fall of Rome that so darkens the air of eight hundred years with a squalid dust-storm of demolition as to obscure our sight of the unquenched lights of the mind of man? Ruskin joins day to human day again.”
About Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.
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