By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove has no age, no limit; and no death.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY