Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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The French cook; we open tins.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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