How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Such 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.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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