John Galsworthy Quotes

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• Life calls the tune, we dance.

  John Galsworthy

  Fate, Destiny, Tunes

  John Galsworthy “Five Tales”, Lulu.com

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  Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Birthday, Death

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

  John Galsworthy

  Thinking, World, Effects

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

  John Galsworthy

  Future, Thinking, Ifs

  Swan Song (1928).

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• A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

  John Galsworthy

  Motivational, Men, Done

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• Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

  John Galsworthy

  Honesty, Jewels, Prejudice

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• Love is not a 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. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

  John Galsworthy

  Weed, Flower, Sunshine

  John Galsworthy (2011). “The Forsyte Saga 1: The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga: Book One”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

  John Galsworthy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Thinking

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• Beginnings are always messy.

  John Galsworthy

  Messy

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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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  Dog, Loss, Animal

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics

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• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

  John Galsworthy

  Inspirational, Distance, Problem

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• It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

  John Galsworthy

  Life, Love Is, People

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.288, Wildside Press LLC

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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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  Mean, Trials, Wealth

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7654, Delphi Classics

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• It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

  John Galsworthy

  Life, Fortitude

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

  John Galsworthy

  Wine, Drug, Dull

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• Only love makes fruitful the soul.

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  Love, Soul, Only Love

  John Galsworthy (2016). “Beyond: England Literature”, p.10, 谷月社

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• Headlines twice the size of the events.

  John Galsworthy

  Workout, Events, Size

  John Galsworthy (2008). “End of the Chapter: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• The French cook; we open tins.

  John Galsworthy

  Tin, Cooks

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

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

  John Galsworthy

  Eye, Mouths

  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.2007, e-artnow

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• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

  John Galsworthy

  Writing, Bridges, House

  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.2228, e-artnow

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• Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

  John Galsworthy

  Dream, Indulge In, Littles

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• The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

  John Galsworthy

  Sacrifice, Sentiments, Prepared

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.488, Wildside Press LLC

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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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