I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHonesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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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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There 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.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY