Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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