The Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.”
“Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!”
“One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.”
“He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!”
“Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.”
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.”
“Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.”
“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.”
“Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.”
“Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.”
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nature, family-saga, love, classics, youth, fate, passion, spring, progress, gilded-age, meaning, yearning
