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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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