Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into 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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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