John Galsworthy Quotes
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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.
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
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.
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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.
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.
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.
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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.
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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.
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.
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.
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!
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without 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.
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
