The French cook; we open tins.
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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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