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World Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I…
- They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference…
- 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…
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
- But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters…
- There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on…
- The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He…
- I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The…
- When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world…
- There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
- She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human…
- 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 stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a…
- The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
- It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no…
- He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the…
- 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…
- Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach