Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY