John Galsworthy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
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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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“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”
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“The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.”
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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 - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.”
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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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“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
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“Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!”
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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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“I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.”
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“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.”
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“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.”
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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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“Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.”
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“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”
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“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.”
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“Only love makes fruitful the soul. 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, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.”
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“Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.”
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“Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.”
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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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“Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
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“There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; 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.”
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“Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.”
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“It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.”
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“Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.”
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“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.”
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“Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.”
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