Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWestminster, 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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