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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
It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
— John Galsworthy
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
— John Galsworthy
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
— John Galsworthy
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
— John Galsworthy
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
— John Galsworthy
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk ...
— John Galsworthy
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!
— John Galsworthy
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
— John Galsworthy
Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
— John Galsworthy
So this wonderful cityHas only dead ashes for me. — John Galsworthy
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
— John Galsworthy
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
— John Galsworthy
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
— John Galsworthy
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
— John Galsworthy
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
— John Galsworthy
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
— John Galsworthy
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
— John Galsworthy
Summer - summer - summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
— John Galsworthy
Headlines twice the size of the events.
— John Galsworthy
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
— John Galsworthy
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
— John Galsworthy
Public opinion's always in advance of the law.
— John Galsworthy
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
— John Galsworthy
Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II
— John Galsworthy
Early morning does not mince words.
— John Galsworthy
The biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
— John Galsworthy
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
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
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.
— John Galsworthy
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
— John Galsworthy
Mechanism! Everywhere mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from. — John Galsworthy
And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!
— 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
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
— John Galsworthy
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
— John Galsworthy
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
— John Galsworthy
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
— John Galsworthy
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
— John Galsworthy
Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
— John Galsworthy
Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.
— John Galsworthy
Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence.
— John Galsworthy
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
— John Galsworthy
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
— John Galsworthy
The French cook; we open tins.
— 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
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
Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.
— John Galsworthy
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
— 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
Life calls the tune, we dance.
— John Galsworthy
