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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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