The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWhen 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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It 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.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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