I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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 young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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!
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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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