Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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