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 GALSWORTHYThose 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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.
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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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