A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
– John Galsworthy
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
– John Galsworthy
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
Headlines twice the size of the events.
– John Galsworthy
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
– John Galsworthy
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
– John Galsworthy
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
– John Galsworthy
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
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
– John Galsworthy
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
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
– John Galsworthy
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.