Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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