By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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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 of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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