Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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