I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor 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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHYSuch 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 GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHonesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIdealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYthe biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYI drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHY