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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful (E M Forster Quotes)
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England (E M Forster Quotes)
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature (E M Forster Quotes)
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support (E M Forster Quotes)
[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one’s goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger (E M Forster Quotes)
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics (E M Forster Quotes)
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it (E M Forster Quotes)
Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired (E M Forster Quotes)
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them. (E M Forster Quotes)
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another. (E M Forster Quotes)
Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30. (E M Forster Quotes)
Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong . (E M Forster Quotes)
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. (E M Forster Quotes)
Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored. (E M Forster Quotes)
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. (E M Forster Quotes)
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. (E M Forster Quotes)
Don’t believe those lies about intellectual people. They’re only written to soothe the majority. (E M Forster Quotes)
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. (E M Forster Quotes)
I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. (E M Forster Quotes)
The hungry and the homeless don’t care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant. (E M Forster Quotes)
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? (E M Forster Quotes)
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . . (E M Forster Quotes)
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. (E M Forster Quotes)
If you pass life by it’s jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you’re frightened it’s all right--that’s no harm; fear is an emotion. (E M Forster Quotes)
So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. (E M Forster Quotes)
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. (E M Forster Quotes)
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. (E M Forster Quotes)
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. (E M Forster Quotes)
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. (E M Forster Quotes)
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others (E M Forster Quotes)