Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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