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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblest
That 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
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Action(s)
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
-John Galsworthy
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Eyes
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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
-John Galsworthy
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Future, The
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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
-John Galsworthy
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Idealism
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-John Galsworthy
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News
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
-John Galsworthy
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Politics
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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
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Sympathy
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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
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Welfare
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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
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Books by and about John Galsworthy