When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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