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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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