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

- 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

Beginnings are always messy.

- John Galsworthy

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

- 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

The French cook; we open tins.

- John Galsworthy

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

- John Galsworthy

Headlines twice the size of the events.

- 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

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

- 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

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