Best E. M. Forster Sayings
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as… Book
- Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion. Classic
- Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the… Admitted
- In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,… Actual
- Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly;… Carnal
- The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but… Blue
- I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. Eternal
- In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked… All
- School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world… Delightful
- I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does. Doe
- When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out… Accomplished
- This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. Called
- Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. Book
- Live in fragments no longer. Only connect... Connect
- I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' Always Found
- Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I… Accused
- It isn't possible to love and to part. Funny
- Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you? Death
- But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking… Comfort
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world. Kingdom
- It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and… Afraid
- We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. All
- Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown Gates
- She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went… All
- A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the… Based
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