The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, 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 Galsworthy
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See what perils do environ tho...
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
I am still under the impressio...
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Honesty of thought and speech ...
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Wealth is a means to an end, n...
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
The talked-about is always the...
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
John Galsworthy
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Love! Beyond meaure - beyond d...
Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
John Galsworthy
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Once admit that we have the ri...
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Love is not a hot-house flower...
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!
John Galsworthy
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Men are in fact, quite unable ...
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
John Galsworthy
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Art is the one form of human e...
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. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute
John Galsworthy
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It is an age of stir and chang...
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.
John Galsworthy
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Only love makes fruitful the s...
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Love could never come to full ...
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Society is built on marriage ....
Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Early morning does not mince w...
Early morning does not mince words.
John Galsworthy
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Summer В- summer В- summer! Th...
Summer В- summer В- summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Only out of stir and change is...
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!
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Love of beauty is really only ...
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
John Galsworthy
88 quotes
Dawn has power to fertilise th...
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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