Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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