Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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