Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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