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Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Everything that I write will be signed with my name. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Glyn Iliffe

He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile. — Glyn Iliffe

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

How much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Anita Loos

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it. — Anita Loos

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts! — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Glyn Parry

The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself. — Glyn Parry

Glyn Quotes By Glyn Maxwell

Sundays, like a stanza break
Or shower's end of all applause,
For some old unexplaining sake
The optimistic tread these shores,
As lonely as the dead awake
Or God among the dinosaurs. — Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Glyn Moody

despite a conducive environment and comforting faith, there is unease among the rooms' inhabitants, a rising tide of something close to fear. They know that a terrible ghost is abroad in the cloisters of Microsoft. The — Glyn Moody

Glyn Quotes By Handley Carr Glyn Moule

The Book is divine, immortal, and ever young. He who was in it for our fathers is in it for us. And since He is in it, as He is in no other literature in the world, — Handley Carr Glyn Moule

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Tessa Gratton

Soren, this is my mother, Jenna Glyn. Mom, this is Soren, my ... ' She blinks and shakes her head before saying, ' ... my everything.'
Jenna's eyes widen in horror, and I don't mind because I dislike her, too. Vehemently. — Tessa Gratton

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Bill Bryson

In 1927 she became, and would forevermore remain, the "It Girl." "It" was first a two-part article and then a novel by a flame-haired English novelist named Elinor Glyn, who was known for writing juicy romances in which the main characters did a lot of undulating ("she undulated round and all over him, twined about him like a serpent") and for being the mistress for some years of Lord Curzon, former viceroy of India. "It," as Glyn explained, "is that quality possessed by some few persons which draws all others with its magnetic life force. With it you win all men if you are a woman - and all women if you are a man. — Bill Bryson

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By M. John Harrison

At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls. — M. John Harrison

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. — Elinor Glyn

Glyn Quotes By Elinor Glyn

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration. — Elinor Glyn