Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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