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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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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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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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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHY