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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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