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 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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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 could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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