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

— John Galsworthy, Flowering Wilderness, Ch. 2 (1932)

About John Galsworthy

1867 – 1933

English novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (1932).

“Art is the great and universal refreshment.”

“The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet.”

“They did not stop to love each other in this life; they were so sure they had all eternity to do it in.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”