It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY






