John Galsworthy

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

— John Galsworthy

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

— John Galsworthy

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

— John Galsworthy

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

— John Galsworthy

Headlines twice the size of the events.

— 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.

— 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

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

Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!For who would live so petty and unblestThat dare not tilt at something ere he die;Rather than, screened by safe majority,Preserve his little life to little end,And never raise a rebel cry!

— John Galsworthy