Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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