Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSee what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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