As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeauty 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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