The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMemory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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