The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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