One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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For 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!
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