Top 70 John Galsworthy Quotes (2024 Update)
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John Galsworthy Quote: “The French cook; we open tins.”

51. “The French cook; we open tins.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands – a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.”

52. “Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands – a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “I loathe the idea of cutting down trees. Two hundred years of shape and energy all gone in half an hour. It’s revolting.”

53. “I loathe the idea of cutting down trees. Two hundred years of shape and energy all gone in half an hour. It’s revolting.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “It’s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it’s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.”

54. “It’s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it’s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “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!”

55. “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

John Galsworthy Quote: “Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.”

56. “Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.”

57. “Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!”

58. “She stood for a moment looking up at the stars, so far, so many, bright and cold. And with a faint smile she thought: ‘I wonder which is my lucky star!”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.”

59. “Mechanism! Everywhere – mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “She stood and tried hard not to believe in God. It seemed mean and petty to have more belief in God when things were going well than when they were instinct with tragedy; just as it seemed mean and petty to pray to God when you wanted something badly, and not pray when you didn’t. But after all God was Eternal Mind that you couldn’t understand; God was not a loving Father that you could. The less she thought about all that the better.”

60. “She stood and tried hard not to believe in God. It seemed mean and petty to have more belief in God when things were going well than when they were instinct with tragedy; just as it seemed mean and petty to pray to God when you wanted something badly, and not pray when you didn’t. But after all God was Eternal Mind that you couldn’t understand; God was not a loving Father that you could. The less she thought about all that the better.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Admiration of beauty and longing for possession are not love.”

61. “Admiration of beauty and longing for possession are not love.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “We are a breed of spoilers!’ thought Jolyon, ’close and greedy; the bloom of life is not safe with us. Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not. Let me be just her stand-by, her perching-place; never-never her cage!”

62. “We are a breed of spoilers!’ thought Jolyon, ’close and greedy; the bloom of life is not safe with us. Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not. Let me be just her stand-by, her perching-place; never-never her cage!”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.”

63. “Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.”

64. “Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “A sudden ache beset his heart; he had stumbled on just one of those past moments in his life, whose beauty and rapture he had failed to arrest, whose wings had fluttered away into the unknown; he had stumbled on a buried memory, a wild sweet time, swiftly choked and ended.”

65. “A sudden ache beset his heart; he had stumbled on just one of those past moments in his life, whose beauty and rapture he had failed to arrest, whose wings had fluttered away into the unknown; he had stumbled on a buried memory, a wild sweet time, swiftly choked and ended.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “For he himself had experienced to the full the gnawing fear at the bottom of each woman’s heart that she is a drag on the man she loves.”

66. “For he himself had experienced to the full the gnawing fear at the bottom of each woman’s heart that she is a drag on the man she loves.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “That “small” emotion, love, grows amazingly when threatened with extinction.”

67. “That “small” emotion, love, grows amazingly when threatened with extinction.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “There was not much real harm in English people except their teeth and their taste, which was certainly deplorable.”

68. “There was not much real harm in English people except their teeth and their taste, which was certainly deplorable.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “James, too, was much disturbed. He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent. Jolyon had spoiled her. None of his girls would have said such a thing. James had always been exceedingly liberal to his children, and the consciousness of this made him feel it all the more deeply. He trifled moodily with his strawberries, then, deluging them with cream, he ate them quickly; they, at all events, should not escape him.”

69. “James, too, was much disturbed. He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent. Jolyon had spoiled her. None of his girls would have said such a thing. James had always been exceedingly liberal to his children, and the consciousness of this made him feel it all the more deeply. He trifled moodily with his strawberries, then, deluging them with cream, he ate them quickly; they, at all events, should not escape him.”

— John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy Quote: “Out of his other property, out of all the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling; out of her he got none.”

70. “Out of his other property, out of all the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling; out of her he got none.”

— John Galsworthy

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