"It is easy to sympathize at a distance,'……" — E. M. Forster
"It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear."
—
E. M. Forster
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster has 350 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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…
See all 350 quotes by E. M. Forster »
More Beard Quotes
This quote is filed under Beard Quotes,
one of 256 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy…
— Amitabh Bachchan
-
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God…
— John Cleese
-
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This…
— Camille Claudel
-
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He…
— Jean Cocteau
-
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
— Virginia Woolf
-
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
-
I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
-
Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys…
— Ralphie May
-
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-
I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go…
— Marc Maron
-
I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has…
— M. Scott Peck
-
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
— George Gissing
See all 256 Beard Quotes »