"Charm, in most men and nearly all women,…" — E. M. Forster

"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."

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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster

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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…

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