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
deprived evolved himself life living man power queer wishing
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.
life fortitude
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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.
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.
life has-beens
Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
tragedy done life-is
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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.
born living loved loving
born to be loved and to love who when not loving are not living
english-author
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
forced man state unhappy until
A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it
human low naturally nature took
As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.
man property setting
He would be setting up as a man of property next, with a place in the country.
bad clever doctor sleep
I'm bad, he said, pouting--"been bad all the week; don't sleep at night. The doctor can't tell why. He's a clever fellow, or I shouldn't have him, but I get nothing out of him but bills.
bad clever doctor sleep
I'm bad, he said, pouting--""been bad all the week; don't sleep at night. The doctor can't tell why. He's a clever fellow, or I shouldn't have him, but I get nothing out of him but bills.