To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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