One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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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.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for 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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We have to love because we love loving.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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