A marvellous speeder-up of Love is War. What might have taken six months, was thus accomplished in three weeks. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Even grief sobbed itself out in time only Time was good for sorrow--Time who saw the passing of each mood, each emotion in turn Time the layer-to-rest. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is left in every man something of the primeval love of stalking. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
And he continued to stare at her, 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . 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. 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . May night had fallen soft and warm, enwrapping with its grape-bloom colour and its scents the billion caprices, intrigues, passions, longings, and regrets of men and women. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He woke at half-past two, an hour which long experience had taught him brings panic intensity to all awkward thoughts. Experience had also taught him that a further waking at the proper hour of eight showed the folly of such panic. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He was frightened by the effect he had produced, and like most men with but little courage, he sought at once to justify himself by bullying. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When one grew old, the whole world was in conspiracy to limit freedom, and for what reason--just to keep the breath in him a little longer. He did not want it at such cost. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
She made up her mind to tell them to play loud--there was a lot of music in a cornet, if the man would only put his soul into it. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . . - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The French cook we open tins. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
James had passed through the fire, but he had passed also through the river of years which washes out the fire he had experienced the saddest experience of all--forgetfulness of what it was like to be in love. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
. . . early morning does not mince words . . . - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Its not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it. - John Galsworthy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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