121 Quotes by John Galsworthy

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.