01UndatedDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
03UndatedIt was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
04UndatedLove 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!John Galsworthy / quote ↗
05UndatedReally," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
06UndatedJustice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act IIJohn Galsworthy / quote ↗
07UndatedYouth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
08UndatedMechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
09UndatedMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
10UndatedThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
12UndatedA man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
15UndatedIdealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
17UndatedReligion 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.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
18UndatedThere 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.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
19UndatedHe 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.John Galsworthy / quote ↗
