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
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore… — 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
It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public… — 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
