I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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