Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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