Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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.
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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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