He 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 GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY