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E.M. Forster Quotes | Quotes said by E.M. Forster

  • E.M. Forster Quote #1

    Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #2

    -while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #3

    ... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #4

    ... and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me? ... Sir, I know ... I know,' and touched him.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #5

    ... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #6

    …”The Emersons who were at Florence, do you mean? No, I don’t suppose it will prove to be them. It is probably a long cry from them to friends of Mr. Vyse’s. Oh, Mrs. Honeychurch, the oddest people! The queerest people! For our part we liked them, didn’t we?” He appealed to Lucy. “There was a great scene over some violets. They picked violets and filled all the vases in the room of these very Miss Alans who have failed to come to Cissie Villa. Poor little ladies! So shocked and so pleased. It used to be one of Miss Catharine’s great stories. ‘My dear sister loves flowers,’ it began. They found the whole room a mass of blue — vases and jugs — and the story ends with ‘So ungentlemanly and yet so beautiful.’ It is all very difficult. Yes, I always connect those Florentine Emersons with violets.”…

  • E.M. Forster Quote #7

    A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #8

    A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

  • E.M. Forster Quote #9

    A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #10

    A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #11

    Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #12

    After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

  • E.M. Forster Quote #13

    All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #14

    An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #15

    And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: Down with the English anyhow. That's certain. Clear out, you fellows, double quick, I say. We may hate one another, but we hate you most. If I don't make you go, Ahmed will, Karim will, if it's flfty-flve hundred years we shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea, and then —he rode against him furiously— and then, he concluded, half kissing him, you and I shall be friends.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #16

    And Englishmen like posing as gods.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #17

    And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #18

    Anyone can find places but finding people is a gift from God.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #19

    As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #20

    As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #21

    Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.... The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #22

    Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #23

    Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #24

    But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #25

    But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #26

    But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #27

    Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #28

    Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #29

    Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

  • E.M. Forster Quote #30

    Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her fertility for weakness. He supposed her as clever as they make 'em, but no more, not realizing that she was penetrating to the depths of his soul, and approving of what she found there.

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