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.
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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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 isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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