John Galsworthy on living
John Galsworthy93 quotes“We are not living in a private world of our own.”
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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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy We have to love because we love loving.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Only love makes fruitful the soul.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Life calls the tune, we dance.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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 GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The French cook; we open tins.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy
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