Elinor Glyn Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.