The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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