Quote by E.M. Forster Download Open image ““Epilogues are for Tolstoy”” — E.M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.” — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.” — Paolo Milani Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.” — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“No. We never have read a line of Tolstoy. We studiously avoid doing so.” — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from the very… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
