John Galsworthy Quotes

“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II”

“Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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