Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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