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.
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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Early morning does not mince words.
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