It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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