John Galsworthy Quotes - Page 2

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• Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Fruition, Destroyed

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.951, Delphi Classics

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• Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

  John Galsworthy

  Animal, Compassion, Suffering

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7260, Delphi Classics

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  House, Saving, Landscape

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2488, e-artnow

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• I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

  John Galsworthy

  Beautiful, Horse, Inspiration

  John Galsworthy (1937). “Glimpses & Reflections”

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• Early morning does not mince words.

  John Galsworthy

  Morning, Doe, Early Morning

  John Galsworthy (2001). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

  John Galsworthy

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• The French cook; we open tins.

  John Galsworthy

  Tin, Cooks

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Another Sheaf”, p.98, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  Believe, Fate, Men

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• Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

  John Galsworthy

  Sex, Unions, Instinct

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.2146, Delphi Classics

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  Men, Facts, Invention

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Man of Property”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

  John Galsworthy

  Men, Soul, Texture

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsythe Saga”, p.306, Xist Publishing

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• Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

  John Galsworthy

  Law, Public Opinion, Opinion

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

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• Matters change and morals change; men remain.

  John Galsworthy

  Change, Men, Matter

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.5787, Delphi Classics

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• the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

  John Galsworthy

  Tragedy, Done, Life Is

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• Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

  John Galsworthy

  Justice, Machines, Starting

  "The Complete Works of John Galsworthy".

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• It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

  John Galsworthy

  Spring, Men, May

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.114, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

  John Galsworthy

  Law, Stones, Majestic

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

  John Galsworthy

  Slang, Vigorous

  1927 Castles in Spain and Other Screeds

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  Strong, Sex, Weekend

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• Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

  John Galsworthy

  Life, Has Beens

  "Complete Works of John Galsworthy".

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  Beauty, People, Doubt

  In Chancery (1920) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
  And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
  For who would live so petty and unblest
  That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
  Rather than, screened by safe majority,
  Preserve his little life to little end,
  And never raise a rebel cry!

  John Galsworthy

  Sky, Majority, Rebel

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.

  John Galsworthy

  Vision, Dawn, Matter

  John Galsworthy (2016). “The Forsythe Saga”, p.587, Xist Publishing

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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.

  John Galsworthy

  Principles, Married, Precaution

  1906 The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.

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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. 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's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

  John Galsworthy

  Art, Real, Men

  John Galsworthy (2008). “The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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