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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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 an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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