E. M. Forster Quotes
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E. M. Forster Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.
Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not two
Aphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face.
Aphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.
But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
My dear, I am worried about you. It seems to me" - dreamily; she was not alarmed - "that you are in a muddle.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.
Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.
But they to him were denizens of Romance, who must keep to the corner he had assigned them, pictures that must not walk out of their frames.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.
Oh, the English! They are always thinking of tea. They carry it by the kilogram, and they are so clumsy that they always pack it at the top.
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
We shan't have rain, but we shall have darkness, so let us hurry on. The darkness last night was appalling.
Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe.
There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
Neither memory nor anticipation is much interested in Father Time, and all dreamers, artists and lovers are partially delivered from his tyranny;
Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.
Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.
If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting
both for us and for her.
both for us and for her.
The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers.
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.