For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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