John Galsworthy Short Quotes

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Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.

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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

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Society is built on marriage... marriage and its consequences.

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

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

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If one thing is more certain than another — which is extremely doubtful —

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Everything known before it happens; and headlines twice the size of the events.

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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of disillusion. Thus am I never dull.

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He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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KEITH:.I don't see the use in drawin' hard and fast rules. You only have to break 'em.

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KEITH:.I don't see the use in drawin' hard and fast rules. You only have to break 'em.

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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

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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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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.

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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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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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Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!

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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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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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Love is no 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.

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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

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