Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe 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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHeadlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove 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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY