“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They go forth into it with well deveoped bodies,fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts... An undeveloped heart, not a cold one. The… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A trouble — nothing as beautiful as a sorrow — rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I am out here to work, mind, to hold this wretched country by force. I'm not a missionary or a Labour Member… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they… — 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