Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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