The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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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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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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