Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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