Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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