Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.” — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
