The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSuch 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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