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Quotes from The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays — Alice Meynell

1847–1922 England

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

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

The majority can tell ordinary truth, but they should not trust themselves for truth extraordinary.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

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.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

In the case of the woman's figure it is the foot, with its extreme proportional smallness, that gives the precious instability, the spring and balance that are so organic.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

[R]ight language enlarges the soul as no other power or influence may do.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

[T]here is something graver than to be immortal, and that is to be mortal.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

This great immorality, centring in the irreproachable days of the Exhibition of 1851 or thereabouts—the pleasure in this particular form of human disgrace—has passed, leaving one trace only: the habit by which some men reproach a silly woman though her sex, whereas a silly man is not reproached through his sex.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired.[…] The leg is the best part of the figure,[…] and the best leg is the man's.[…] But man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays (1893)

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