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.
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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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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 drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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