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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
JOHN GALSWORTHY