The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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