Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYDanger 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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