There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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