Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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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.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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