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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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