As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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