Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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