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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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