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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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