"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out……" — E. M. Forster
"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."
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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…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Armour Quotes
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
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I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a…
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I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just…
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when…
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The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless,…
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There is no armour against fate.
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And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour,
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I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make…
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When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you…
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Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.
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If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour,…
— Don King
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Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those…
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