The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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