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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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