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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. — John Galsworthy

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull. — John Galsworthy

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron. — John Galsworthy

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk ... — John Galsworthy

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write. — John Galsworthy

Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence. — John Galsworthy

Summer - summer - summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass! — John Galsworthy

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. — John Galsworthy

Life calls the tune, we dance. — John Galsworthy

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. — John Galsworthy

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. — John Galsworthy

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned. — John Galsworthy

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. — John Galsworthy

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

The French cook; we open tins. — John Galsworthy

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies. — John Galsworthy

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

Beginnings are always messy. — John Galsworthy

Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. — John Galsworthy

Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it. — John Galsworthy

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. — John Galsworthy

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. — John Galsworthy

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. — John Galsworthy

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people. — John Galsworthy

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. — John Galsworthy

And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted! — John Galsworthy

Mechanism! Everywhere
mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from. — John Galsworthy

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. — John Galsworthy

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. — John Galsworthy