A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
- Life
- 1868-1956
- Occupations
- writer, biographer
- Notable works
- The Friends of Voltaire
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall