To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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When 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.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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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