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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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There 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.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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