Quotes About Galsworthy

She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. Best shoe lesson they ever had, she told me cheerfully. Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.' To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II