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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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