The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHY
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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Early morning does not mince words.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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