Alice Meynell Quotes
1847–1922 England
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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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.
What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere?
Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.
I make the whole world answer to my art.
The majority can tell ordinary truth, but they should not trust themselves for truth extraordinary.
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
London visibly works at nothing but transformation.
Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
The worst of all reasons for continuing anything is that it is easily continuable.
Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
Thou art like silence unperplexed,
A secret and a mystery
Between one footfall and the next.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Meynell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.