Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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