Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHonesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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