The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY