Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it. John Galsworthy More Quotes by John Galsworthy More Quotes From John Galsworthy Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang. John Galsworthy vigorousslang One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. John Galsworthy eyemouths I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse. John Galsworthy horseinspirationbeautiful The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another. John Galsworthy majesticlawstones 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 realmenart the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done John Galsworthy tragedydonelife-is 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 weekendstrongsex There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day. John Galsworthy wineairfeet It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well. John Galsworthy not-good-enoughtimepeople Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. John Galsworthy machinesstartingjustice Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting. John Galsworthy upliftingbeautifulbeauty 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 winechangedrinking 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 doubtbeautypeople There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. John Galsworthy politicsimpossibleworld As a man lives and thinks, so he will write. John Galsworthy writingmenthinking It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it. John Galsworthy fortitudelife Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. John Galsworthy atheismrealstruggle Matters change and morals change; men remain. John Galsworthy changemattermen Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. John Galsworthy indulge-indreamlittles The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. John Galsworthy self-helpnew-beginningshumans
