{"author":"John Galsworthy","author_id":"John+Galsworthy","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["thought","people","doubt "],"id":685,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["love","youth"],"id":41465,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"The French cook we open tins.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["open","cook","french "],"id":68782,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["meaning","nature","spring","yearning"],"id":74637,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["american-pen-center","dreams","human-nature","inspirational","john-galsworthy","nobel-laureate","pen-clubs","poetry-of-life"],"id":81351,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["world","impossible","you "],"id":106216,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["imagination"],"id":107902,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["think","you","cannot "],"id":135973,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["progress"],"id":145150,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"},{"text":"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.","author":"John Galsworthy","tags":["life","future","service "],"id":220931,"author_id":"John+Galsworthy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}