Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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 are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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