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
change men matter
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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.
love soul only-love
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
spring men may
It 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.
dream indulge-in littles
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
war believe argument
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
hurt persons
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
memories deeds corpses
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
sacrifice sentiments prepared
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
character power thinking
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
life fortitude
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
animal suffering unnecessary
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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.
writing bridges house
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.