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Own Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
- He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to…
- 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…
- 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…
- All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between…
- 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…
- A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver…
- 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…
- One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
- People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
- I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to…
- 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…
- The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
- One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-…
- This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely…
- She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was…
- You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov