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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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