"The people I respect most behave as if……" — E. M. Forster

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

— E. M. Forster

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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…

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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can… — Alexis Arguello
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -… — Richard Armitage
Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against… — Mario Balotelli
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. — Tallulah Bankhead
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. — Brigitte Bardot
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that… — James Truslow Adams
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human… — Simone de Beauvoir
Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as… — Danny Boyle
Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label. — Jo Brand
Temptation to behave is terrible. — Bertolt Brecht
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. — Josef Albers
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop… — Leo Buscaglia

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