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 GALSWORTHYSee what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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 building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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