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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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 wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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