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
art real men
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
real struggle atheism
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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.
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.
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.
afflicted beauty continued looked people quite ran stare
And he continued to stare at her, 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.
self-esteem believe thinking
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
believe fate men
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
law stones majestic
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.