To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHeadlines twice the size of the events.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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