The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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