To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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