Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLooking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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