It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way -… — 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
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
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation… — 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
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