Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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