Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHY