As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTake 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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