We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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