One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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