Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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