Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Kingston
John Sinjohn
Arms
Sweetness
Stand
Longing
Looking
Grass
Makes
Leaves
Motionless
May
Breathe
Breathes
Men
Painful
Ineffable
Embrace
Fling
Spring
Yearning
More quotes by John Galsworthy
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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
Headlines twice the size of the events.
John Galsworthy
It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
John Galsworthy
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
John Galsworthy
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 his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands then he looked up, and my companion said: He's an angel!
John Galsworthy
How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree an emotion precious and uplifting.
John Galsworthy
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
John Galsworthy
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
John Galsworthy
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
John Galsworthy
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
John Galsworthy
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
John Galsworthy
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
John Galsworthy
