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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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