Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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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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