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John Galsworthy Quotes

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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 Quotes) Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself  (John Galsworthy Quotes) 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 Quotes) Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society  (John Galsworthy Quotes) By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls  (John Galsworthy Quotes) There's just one rule for politicians all over the world: don't say in power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible  (John Galsworthy Quotes) Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting  (John Galsworthy Quotes) I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull  (John Galsworthy Quotes) I don't know much about morality and that, but there is this: 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Love! Beyond measure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it  (John Galsworthy Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!  (John Galsworthy Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself  (John Galsworthy 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 Quotes) There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible  (John Galsworthy Quotes) He was 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 Quotes) Youth to youth, like the dragon flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through  (John Galsworthy Quotes) Mechanism! Everywhere - mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from  (John Galsworthy Quotes) A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else  (John Galsworthy Quotes) A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it  (John Galsworthy Quotes) Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse - like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense  (John Galsworthy Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 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  (John Galsworthy Quotes) 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 Quotes) Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor cycle and the standing lunch  (John Galsworthy Quotes)
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