The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY