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.
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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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It 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.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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