Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

- Hervey Allen

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

- Hervey Allen

Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill…

- Hervey Allen

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its arist…

- Hervey Allen

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

- Hervey Allen

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

- Hervey Allen

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

- Hervey Allen

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

- Hervey Allen

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

- Hervey Allen