The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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