Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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