“He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Consequently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Ya le dije que me iba, no es decente que usted no me escriba. Yo procedo de una familia respetable, y no… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image