John Galsworthy Quotes

Life calls the tune, we dance.

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 flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

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

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.

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

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

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

Beginnings are always messy.

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.

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