And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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