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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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