As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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