It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHYEarly morning does not mince words.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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 GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY