Quotes by John Galsworthy

About John Galsworthy:

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

John Galsworthy

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

John Galsworthy

Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.

John Galsworthy

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, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flo...

John Galsworthy

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

John Galsworthy

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

John Galsworthy

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

John Galsworthy

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

John Galsworthy

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

John Galsworthy

The French cook; we open tins.

John Galsworthy

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.

John Galsworthy

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.

John Galsworthy

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy

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.

John Galsworthy

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

John Galsworthy

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

John Galsworthy

Headlines twice the size of the events.

John Galsworthy

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Life calls the tune, we dance.

John Galsworthy

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Galsworthy
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist and playwright
  • BornAugust 14, 1867
  • DiedJanuary 31, 1933
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Writer; Novelist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature