The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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