Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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