John Galsworthy Quotes

"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
(Related: Life, Power, Living, Man, Pity, Wishing)

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Eyes)

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Death, Love, Age)

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Actions, Man, Nothing)

"The French cook; we open tins."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Open)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Thought, People, Doubt, Nothing)

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Idealism)

"Headlines twice the size of the events."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Events)

"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
(Related: Religion, Life, Belief, Ants, Bees, Future, Service)

"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Beginnings)

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Thought, Action, Man, State)

"Beginnings are always messy."
- John Galsworthy
(Related: Beginnings)

"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
(Related: Power, Opposition, Politicians)