“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Round every knob and cushion in the house sentiment gathered, a sentiment that was at times personal, but more often a faint… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time. Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Eccolo!” he exclaimed. At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. Light… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from the very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can describe that?… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
“He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share
