He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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