The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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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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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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