For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason 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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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