We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Religion 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.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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