One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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 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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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