Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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