“Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told… — 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
“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
“Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her.” He found the situation full… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as… — 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