Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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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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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.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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