One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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