The Man of Property Quotes

“Youth, like a flame, burned ever in his breast, and to youth he turned, to the round little limbs, so reckless, that wanted care, to the small round faces so unreasonably solemn or bright, to the treble tongues, and the shrill, chuckling laughter, to the insistent tugging hands, and the feel of small bodies against his legs, to all that was young and young, and once more young.”
― John Galsworthy, The Man of Property

“His natural taciturnity was in his favour; nothing could be more calculated to give people, especially people with property (Soames had no other clients), the impression that he was a safe man. And he was safe. [...] How could he fall, when his soul abhorred circumstances which render a fall possible - a man cannot fall off the floor!”
― John Galsworthy, The Man of Property

“that slow and beautiful decay which flings crowns underfoot to star the earth with fallen glories,”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property

“Florian’s”
― John Galsworthy, The Man of Property

“And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that ‘family’ and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to ‘talk them out.”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga Complete Novels