Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHY