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!
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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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