Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere 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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYReligion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHY