Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy More Quotes by John Galsworthy More Quotes From John Galsworthy He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world! John Galsworthy wish might world Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies. John Galsworthy unions instinct sex Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed. John Galsworthy destroyed fruition love Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass! John Galsworthy footsteps summer grass The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. John Galsworthy prepared sentiments sacrifice 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. John Galsworthy owing modern lunch Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. John Galsworthy corpses deeds memories Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think. John Galsworthy power character thinking Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, John Galsworthy rebel majority sky 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 landscape saving house The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing. John Galsworthy quality perfection fundamentals By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. John Galsworthy texture soul men If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. John Galsworthy your think you future A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Galsworthy thought man unhappy action
