Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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