A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

- Vernon Lee

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure…

- Vernon Lee

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to t…

- Vernon Lee

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to …

- Vernon Lee

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

- Vernon Lee

There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so tha…

- Vernon Lee

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there i…

- Vernon Lee

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

- Vernon Lee

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world…

- Vernon Lee