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.
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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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