John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy OMwas an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Sagaand its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 August 1867
sacrifice sentiments prepared
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
character power thinking
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
life fortitude
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
animal suffering unnecessary
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
life men voice
Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.
writing bridges house
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.
love fruition destroyed
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
marriage built consequence
Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
mean trials wealth
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.
eye mouths
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
lunch owing modern
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.
live-life men wish
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.
dog angel hands
From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"
house saving landscape
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.