Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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