Elinor Glyn Quotes

#1. If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

Anita Loos

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Elinor Glyn

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

Elinor Glyn

#6. Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

Elinor Glyn

#7. I perceive, Raphael, that you neither desire wealth nor greatness; and, indeed, I value and admire such a man much more than I do any of the great men in the world.

Thomas More

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

Elinor Glyn

#9. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Elinor Glyn

#10. 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

#11. To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

Elinor Glyn

#12. Our aid is work for the American people.

Rajiv Shah

#13. You get typecast. You have to find a niche in this business. So, the roles that I got cast in were the Latina or the Italian spitfires. The woman with a passion and the woman who didn't want to listen to anyone, did everything her own way, very self-willed.

Patricia Mauceri

#14. 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

#15. The Creator fuels creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Elinor Glyn

#19. The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Sarah Lacy

#20. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

#21. Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Elinor Glyn

#23. There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

Robert Caro

#24. All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

Elinor Glyn

#25. Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

#26. But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.

John Kasich

#27. The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Berenice Abbott

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

Elinor Glyn