Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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