He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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There 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.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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