Quotes by John Galsworthy

• If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
• 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.
• One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
• Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
• A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
• The French cook; we open tins.
• 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.
• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
• Headlines twice the size of the 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.
• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
• A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
• Beginnings are always messy.
• 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.