He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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