John Galsworthy Quotes

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

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

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!