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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYUnder its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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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.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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