John Galsworthy Quotes

John Galsworthy (15)

Birth:	14th August, 1867
Death:	31st January, 1933
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Writer

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• A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it.

  John Galsworthy

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• Matters change and morals change; men remain.

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• Beginnings are always messy.

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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

• Born to be loved and to love who when not loving are not living.

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• Headlines twice the size of the events.

  John Galsworthy

• 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.

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

  John Galsworthy

• He would be setting up as a man of property next, with a place in the country.

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• If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

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• See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

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• 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

• Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place — service — social service — the ants creed, the bees creed.

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• The French cook; we open tins.

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• Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

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