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 GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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The 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.
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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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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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