The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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