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John Galsworthy was an English novelist known for his profound insights into the social life of late Victorian England. His works often focus on social classes and moral issues, with the Forsyte Saga series being particularly famous.

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Famous John Galsworthy Quotes

“Only love makes fruitful the soul.”

Love Soul Only Love

Book:Beyond: England Literature

Source: Beyond: England Literature

“It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.”

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Author:John Galsworthy

“Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.”

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Book:Beyond

Source: Beyond

“By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.”

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Book:The Forsythe Saga

Source: The Forsythe Saga

“There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.”

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Book:The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels

Source: The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels

About the Author

Born: August 14, 1867
Died: January 31, 1933
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 81

Books & Sources

Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)Related source material

The Forsyte SagaRelated source material

The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine NovelsRelated source material

25 PlaysRelated source material

Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)Related source material

Flowering WildernessRelated source material

The Forsythe SagaRelated source material

The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England LiteratureRelated source material

Another SheafRelated source material

BeyondRelated source material

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