Quotes by John Galsworthy
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
Beginnings are always messy.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Headlines twice the size of the events.
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
The French cook; we open tins.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
