Best E. M. Forster Proverbs
- If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. Fictitious
- It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy. Call
- Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the… All
- In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… Accommodate
- My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it. Another Soul
- She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. Absolutely
- They had nothing in common but the English language. Common
- If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run Act
- It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… Arno
- The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths,… Apprehend
- How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build… Appeal
- I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… Air
- Nature pulls one way and human nature another. Human
- Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no… Both
- It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never… Breakup
- Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. Book
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? Beautiful
- Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand. Blind
- I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. Approach
- Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few… Assimilation
- Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so… Case
- The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us… Battle
- Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She… Any
- I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them. Admire
- I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Choose
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