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
morning doe early-morning
Early morning does not mince words.
summer grass footsteps
Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
writing thinking men
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
light reason made
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
sex unions instinct
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
men soul texture
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
gossip lasts
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
life has-beens
Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
iron hot danger
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
motivational men done
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
dog eye thinking
It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
book men squares
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
beauty people doubt
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.
world politics impossible
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.