The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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