We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHeadlines twice the size of the events.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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 French cook; we open tins.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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