The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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It 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.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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