He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into 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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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.
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