Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy More Quotes by John Galsworthy More Quotes From John Galsworthy See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron. John Galsworthy iron danger hot It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him. John Galsworthy eye dog thinking Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision. John Galsworthy vision dawn matter Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences. John Galsworthy consequence built marriage The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . . John Galsworthy gossip lasts We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. John Galsworthy war peace believe 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 precaution married principles Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it. John Galsworthy has-beens life The French cook; we open tins. John Galsworthy tin cooks 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 squares men book 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 salvation belief men 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. John Galsworthy sunset stars spring Early morning does not mince words. John Galsworthy early-morning doe morning 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. John Galsworthy live-life wish men From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!" John Galsworthy angel dog hands Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that. John Galsworthy emotional men hands Public opinion's always in advance of the law. John Galsworthy public-opinion opinion law Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. John Galsworthy compassion suffering animal Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it. John Galsworthy light reason made 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. John Galsworthy voice men life
