We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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