We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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