The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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