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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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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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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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