Elinor Glyn > Quotes

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― 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

“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 Vicissitudes of Evangeline

“She looked like green rhubarb juice, and he had the expression of 'Damn!' all over him.”
― Elinor Glyn, The Visits of Elizabeth

“a woman has “it” when she exhibits a “magnetism” which is irresistible, “unorthodox” in her ways.”
― Elinor Glyn

“hobbledehoys,”
― Elinor Glyn, Elinor Glyn’s Collected Works: Three Weeks, Red Hair, Beyond The Rocks, and More! (18 Works): Romantic Fiction