Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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