England Quotes by E. M. Forster

8 England quotes by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster’s short reflections on England reveal his nuanced literary sensibility. Though few, the quotes capture his thoughtful engagement with the nation’s culture.

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England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the…

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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres…

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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

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English literature is a flying fish.

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“Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have…

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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of…

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Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national…

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In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it…

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Reverence is fatal to literature.

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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

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Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else…

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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure…

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A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at…

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