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.
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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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