Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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.
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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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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