The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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