Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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