More from John Galsworthy
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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 GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy
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