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 GALSWORTHYI am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Take 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.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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