For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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