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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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