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Most Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man…
- 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…
- If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the…
- The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a…
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as…
- Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
- The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
- Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
- 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…
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them.…
- Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving…
- He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that…
- Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster