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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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