For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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 isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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