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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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