The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Early morning does not mince words.
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