One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYArt is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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