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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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