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.
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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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