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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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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.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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