Headlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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 to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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