A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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