John Galsworthy Quotes

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

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.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

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.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!

A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.