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.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

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

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

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.

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

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

One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.

The French cook we open tins.

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

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II