Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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