Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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