Early morning does not mince words.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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