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From Quotes by John Galsworthy
- Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
- 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…
- Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
- 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,…
- Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years…
- 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…
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