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 GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY