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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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