Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga Quotes

“Really you must. Nobody wishes you harm, I’m sure. FALDER. I believe that, Mr. Cokeson. Nobody wishes you harm, but they down you all the same. This feeling — [He stares round him, as though at something closing in] It’s crushing me. [With sudden impersonality] I know it is.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“FALDER. [Almost eagerly] Yes, sir, but you don’t understand what prison is. It’s here it gets you. He grips his chest.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“FALDER. It’s easy enough to put a face on it, sir, when you’re independent. Try it when you’re down like me. They talk about giving you your deserts. Well, I think I’ve had just a bit over.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“FALDER’S work [a shirt to which he is putting buttonholes] is hung to a nail on the wall over a small wooden table, on which the novel “Lorna Doone” lies open.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“THE CHAPLAIN. Extraordinary perverted will-power — some of them. Nothing to be done till it’s broken. THE GOVERNOR. And not much afterwards, I’m afraid. Ground too hard for golf?”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“FROME. [Rising] My lord. The prisoner is very anxious that I should ask you if your lordship would kindly request the reporters not to disclose the name of the woman witness in the Press reports of these proceedings. Your lordship will understand that the consequences might be extremely serious to her.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“The bearing of all this on the question of premeditation [and premeditation will imply sanity] is very obvious. You must not allow any considerations of age or temptation to weigh with you in the finding of your verdict. Before you can come to a verdict of guilty but insane you must be well and thoroughly convinced that the condition of his mind was such as would have qualified him at the moment for a lunatic asylum.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“But in those four minutes the boy before you has slipped through a door, hardly opened, into that great cage which never again quite lets a man go — the cage of the Law.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“My friend has alluded to the “romantic glamour” with which I have sought to invest this case. Gentlemen, I have done nothing of the kind. I have merely shown you the background of “life” — that palpitating life which, believe me — whatever my friend may say — always lies behind the commission of a crime. Now gentlemen, we live in a highly, civilized age, and the sight of brutal violence disturbs us in a very strange way, even when we have no personal interest in the matter. But when we see it inflicted on a woman whom we love — what then?”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“FROME. What was the nature of your relations with him? RUTH. We were friends. THE JUDGE. Friends? RUTH. [Simply] Lovers, sir. THE JUDGE. [Sharply] In what sense do you use that word? RUTH. We love each other.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“But we all know the power of the passion of love; and I would ask you to remember, gentlemen, in listening to her evidence, that, married to a drunken and violent husband, she has no power to get rid of him; for, as you know, another offence besides violence is necessary to enable a woman to obtain a divorce; and of this offence it does not appear that her husband is guilty.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“Gentlemen, the prisoner is only twenty-three years old. I shall call before you a woman from whom you will learn the events that led up to this act. You will hear from her own lips the tragic circumstances of her life, the still more tragic infatuation with which she has inspired the prisoner.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“FALDER is sitting exactly opposite to the JUDGE, who, raised above the clamour of the court, also seems unconscious of and indifferent to everything.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“JAMES. Same thing. He’s gone to work in the most cold-blooded way to defraud his employers, and cast the blame on an innocent man. If that’s not a case for the law to take its course, I don’t know what is. WALTER. For the sake of his future, though. JAMES. [Sarcastically] According to you, no one would ever prosecute. WALTER. [Nettled] I hate the idea of it.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“CAST OF THE FIRST PRODUCTION AT THE DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE, FEBRUARY 21, 1910 James How MR. SYDNEY VALENTINE Walter How MR. CHARLES MAUDE Cokeson MR. EDMUND GWENN Falder MR. DENNIS EADIE The Office-boy MR. GEORGE HERSEE The Detective MR. LESLIE CARTER The Cashier MR. C. E. VERNON The Judge MR. DION BOUCICAULT The Old Advocate MR. OSCAR ADYE The Young Advocate MR. CHARLES BRYANT The Prison Governor MR. GRENDON BENTLEY The Prison Chaplain MR. HUBERT HARBEN The Prison Doctor MR. LEWIS CASSON Wooder MR. FREDERICK LLOYD Moaney MR. ROBERT PATEMAN Clipton MR. O. P. HEGGIE O’Cleary MR. WHITFORD KANE Ruth Honeywill Miss EDYTH OLIVE”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“A NUMBER OF BARRISTERS, SOLICITERS, SPECTATORS, USHERS, REPORTERS, JURYMEN, WARDERS, AND PRISONERS TIME: The Present. ACT I. The office of James and Walter How. Morning. July. ACT II. Assizes. Afternoon. October. ACT III. A prison. December. SCENE I. The Governor’s office. SCENE II. A corridor. SCENE III. A cell. ACT IV. The office of James and Walter How. Morning. March, two years later.”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga

“PERSONS OF THE PLAY JAMES HOW, solicitor WALTER HOW, solicitor ROBERT COKESON, their managing clerk WILLIAM FALDER, their junior clerk SWEEDLE, their office-boy WISTER, a detective COWLEY, a cashier MR. JUSTICE FLOYD, a judge HAROLD CLEAVER, an old advocate HECTOR FROME, a young advocate CAPTAIN DANSON, V.C., a prison governor THE REV. HUGH MILLER, a prison chaplain EDWARD CLEMENT, a prison doctor WOODER, a chief warder MOANEY, convict CLIFTON, convict O’CLEARY, convict RUTH HONEYWILL, a woman”
― John Galsworthy, Collected Works of John Galsworthy with the Foryste Saga