John Galsworthy Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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!
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II
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.
That tendency ... to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.
Mechanism! Everywhere
mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.
mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.
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.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.
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.
He won't be happy till he gets it," said Michael, at last: "The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is.