Character Quote by John Galsworthy

“She stood and tried hard not to believe in God. It seemed mean and petty to have more belief in God when things were…

— John Galsworthy

“Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,…

— John Galsworthy

“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II”

— John Galsworthy

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

— John Galsworthy

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

— John Galsworthy

“That tendency...to lie awake between the hours of two and four, when the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.”

— John Galsworthy

“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile everything is,…

— John Galsworthy

“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England,…

— John Galsworthy

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

— John Galsworthy

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

— John Galsworthy

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

— John Galsworthy

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

— John Galsworthy