"We are all familiar with the argument: Make……" — 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."
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John Galsworthy
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47 Quotes by John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy has 47 quotes on this site.
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Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its…
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is…
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly,…
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel,…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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