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 GALSWORTHYHow 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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