We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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