28 Quotations by E. M. Forster
- 1. A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
- 2. A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...
- 3. As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e ...
- 4. At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
- 5. Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ...
- 6. But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
- 7. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
- 8. Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the ...
- 9. How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
- 10. I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me ...
- 11. I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
- 12. I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, ...
- 13. I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon ...
- 14. I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
- 15. If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the gu ...
- 16. It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, ...
- 17. One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
- 18. Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing ...
- 19. The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
- 20. The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an ...
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