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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYUnder 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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