Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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