Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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