The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

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• John Galsworthy:

  There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition

• John Galsworthy:

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

• 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

• John Galsworthy:

  Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was

• John Galsworthy:

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

• John Galsworthy:

  He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no do

• John Galsworthy:

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

• John Galsworthy:

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

• John Galsworthy:

  The French cook; we open tins.