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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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 value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHY






