The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell
The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. – Alice Meynell
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act. – Alice Meynell
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. – Theodore Sturgeon