A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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