I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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