Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEarly morning does not mince words.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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