Headlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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