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 GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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 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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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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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