Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIdealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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 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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Westminster, 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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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