Quotes from Elinor Glyn

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

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

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called "it."

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

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

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.

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.

a woman has "it" when she exhibits a "magnetism" which is irresistible, "unorthodox" in her ways.

She looked like green rhubarb juice, and he had the expression of 'Damn!' all over him.

hobbledehoys,

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

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

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.

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

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

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

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

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

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