Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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