By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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