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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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