bookmate game
John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga - Complete

  • Юлияhas quoted11 years ago
    Difficult to believe it was so long ago; he felt young still! Of all his thoughts, as he stood there counting his cigars, this was the most poignant, the most bitter. With his white head and his loneliness he had remained young and green at heart. And those Sunday afternoons on Hampstead Heath, when young Jolyon and he went for a stretch along the Spaniard's Road to Highgate, to Child's Hill, and back over the Heath again to dine at Jack Straw's Castle--how delicious his cigars were then! And such weather! There was no weather now.
  • Ireesshas quoted11 years ago
    When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died—but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    all he could tell she might want to take up a profession, become a doctor or solicitor, some nonsense.
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    he purpose of marriage was children, not mere sinful happiness.
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    most girls are married ignorant of the sexual side of life.
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    simply because what one would do theoretically is not always what one will do when it comes to the point.
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    the twenty-third of May," said Fleur; "on the ninth of July I shall be in front of the 'Bacchus and Ariadne'
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    We'll soon take that down. D'you play, Mr. Mont?"
    "I hit the ball about, sir."
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    life's beastly short. One wants to live forever, and know everything
  • puddle88has quoted2 years ago
    luckily; I don't suppose I shall be any good at making money."
    "If you were, I don't believe I should like you."
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)