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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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