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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHeadlines twice the size of the events.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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