Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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 snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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