Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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