Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by 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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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!
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