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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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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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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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