John Galsworthy

Its not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

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

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.

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.

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.

There's just 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.

The law it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

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.

Beginnings are always messy.

Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter of fact vision.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

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

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.

The French cook; we open tins.

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

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.

By the cigars they smoke and the composers they love ye shall know the texture of mens souls.

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

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

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