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
life love-is people
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.
men belief salvation
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!
future thinking ifs
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
beautiful horse inspiration
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
beauty beautiful uplifting
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
messy
Beginnings are always messy.
weed flower sunshine
Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
size events newspaper-headlines
Headlines twice the size of the events.
inspirational distance problem
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
fate destiny tunes
Life calls the tune, we dance.
honesty jewels speech
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.
change drinking wine
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.