The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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