black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

John Galsworthy

Related Topics

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Direct Distance Idealism Increase One Problem Proportion
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

House Limbo Pass Soul Time
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Away Bear Carry Friend Go Hard Least Live Many Quest So Thing Years
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Describing Enough Get Good Ink Movement Penultimate People Person Physical Place Sensation Spend State Time To
Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Around Effect Everything Say
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Built Consequences Mariage Society
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes