Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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