Hervey Allen Quotes

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

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

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

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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

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