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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYJustice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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