Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
—Elinor Glyn
Topics: Romance
Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even five, I would snap my fingers at all men, and say, ‘No, I make my life as I choose, and shall cultivate knowledge and books, and indulge in beautiful ideas of honor and exalted sentiments, and perhaps one day succumb to a noble passion.
—Elinor Glyn
The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God’s sky with the stars in it.
—Elinor Glyn
He had that nameless charm, WITH a strong magnetism, which can only be called “It.”
—Elinor Glyn
Topics: Charm
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