Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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