The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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