Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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