The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHY