Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glynwas a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction that was considered scandalous for its time. She popularized the concept of It. Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards, she had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow in particular...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 October 1864
duration emotion loved-ones
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.
travel unattractive creatures
I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
jealousy parent passionate
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.
zoos animal land
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.
blood blue veins
I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.
iron fire delay
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.
years europe cities
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.
character forgiving looks
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.
friendship two soul
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.
humor thinking laughing
American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
pride lightning vow
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.
strong mean men
No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.
heart dust romance
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.
loss self california
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.