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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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