There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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