John Galsworthy Quotes

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

Take a walk on the wild side.

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.

To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social establishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob. To rebel against the “scientific” establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I didn't wear a helmet because I wanted to show that the bowler wasn't intimidating me, and also that's just the way I liked to bat.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

I say, 'Why not' to everything.

I am ... one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

I'm really attracted to anti-heroes, and I'm a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies.