Elinor Glyn Quotes
Elinor Glyn shares seductive prose about charisma, style and reading, a treat for those who love lush, evocative storytelling.
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And loveliest sight of all, in front of the fire, stretched at full length, was his tiger - and on him - also at full length - reclined the lady, garbed in some strange clinging garment of heavy purple crepe, its hem embroidered with gold, one white arm resting on the beast's head, her back supported by a pile of the velvet cushions, and a heap of rarely bound books at her side, while between her red lips was a rose not redder than they - an almost scarlet rose.
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A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
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No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either - although this actual person is abominably good-looking - it does not depend upon intelligence or character or - anything - as you say, it is just 'it'.
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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.
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He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called 'It', and cats - as well as women - always knew when he came into the room.
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Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.
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Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger skin? Or would you prefer To err With her On some other fur?
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I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like It were going on. I have misspent my days. When I think of all those hours I flung away in reading Henry James and Santayana, when I might have been reading of life, throbbing, beating, perfumed life, I practically break down.
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Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
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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.
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Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.
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Oh, so woeful a kiss has never a lover recieved; if another come to know such a kiss I swear that it will not leave them unchanged.
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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!
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Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
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Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
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Staying far never breaks relation, staying near never builds relation. Its a link between hearts, which never allows us to forget each other. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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Everything that I write will be signed with my name.
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I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
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To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.
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It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.
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American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
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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.
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American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.