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E. M. Forster Quote: “I am swathed in cant’, she thought, ’and it is good for me to be stripped of it.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now... and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “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.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism – that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!”
E. M. Forster Quote: “She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I was yours once ’till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now – I can’t hang about whining forever – and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Don’t believe those lies about intellectual people. They’re only written to soothe the majority.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The sky settles everything – not only climates and seasons but when the earth shall be beautiful.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms. Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”
E. M. Forster Quote: “The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “We move between two darknesses.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “You show so very clearly that intelligence and sympathy are superficial – good enough things in their way – they do what they can and would gladly do more; but the real thing is “being there”, and the worst of it is, no two human beings can be in the same place.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “He was thinking of the irony of friendship – so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element – direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine – the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls “Come” through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”
E. M. Forster Quote: “Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.”
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