Elinor Glyn Quotes

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

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

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

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

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.