Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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