It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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