The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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.
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