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 GALSWORTHYNot the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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.
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