Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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