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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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