121 Quotes by John Galsworthy

Love 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!

She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!

Most of our caste in this country, if they only knew it, are Confucian rather than Christian. Belief in ancestors, and tradition, respect for parents, honesty, moderation of conduct, kind treatment of animals and dependents, absence of self-obtrusion, and stoicism in face of pain and death.

There was not much real harm in English people except their teeth and their taste, which was certainly deplorable.

That “small” emotion, love, grows amazingly when threatened with extinction.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

Love is no hot-house flower,but a wild plant, born of a wet night,born of an hour of sunshine; sprungfrom wild seed, blown along the roadby awild wind.