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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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