Best E. M. Forster Thoughts
- I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Holiness
- The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. Died
- Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. Ceases
- Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. Extra
- We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst… Admit
- Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. Faith
- Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. Always Greater
- Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. Inspirational
- Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. Coarseness
- For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the… Acknowledge
- Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the… Both
- No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. Agnostic
- Nonsense and beauty have close connections. Beauty
- Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. Allowed
- Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. Adventure
- The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. Funny
- We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. Cast
- Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. Funny
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. Beethoven
- Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. Death
- England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. Accept
- I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and… Down
- Ideas are fatal to caste. Caste
- It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. Agreement
- It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. Bigness
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