"I would rather be a coward than brave……" — E. M. Forster

"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."

— E. M. Forster

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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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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks… — Julie Burchill
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar

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