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 GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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We have to love because we love loving.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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