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
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.
memories deeds corpses
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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.
eye mouths
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
dog angel hands
From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"
law public-opinion opinion
Public opinion's always in advance of the law.
house saving landscape
How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
light reason made
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
iron hot danger
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
honesty jewels speech
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
mean trials wealth
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
perfection quality fundamentals
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
slang vigorous
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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.