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
principles married born
When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.
born living loved loving
born to be loved and to love who when not loving are not living
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.
english-author
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
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.
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.
justice machines given
Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
wine air feet
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
wish might world
He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!
wine drug dull
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
men facts invention
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.