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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSee what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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