Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHY