John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. In 1932, Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. John Galsworthy was born on August 14, 1867, in Kingston Hill, Surrey, England. His father, John Galsworthy Sr., was a solicitor, and his mother, Blanche Bailey, came from a family of prosperous merchants. Galsworthy attended Harrow, a prestigious English public school, where he began to develop an interest in literature and the arts. After completing his education at Harrow, he studied law at New College, Oxford. However, he was more inclined towards literature and the arts than legal studies.
Famous John Galsworthy Quotes
“I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.” ~ John Galsworthy“How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.” ~ John Galsworthy“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.” ~ John Galsworthy“It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.” ~ John Galsworthy“I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.” ~ John Galsworthy“Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.” ~ John Galsworthy“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!” ~ John Galsworthy“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.” ~ John Galsworthy“Life calls the tune, we dance.” ~ John Galsworthy“We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.” ~ John Galsworthy“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.” ~ John Galsworthy
