For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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