“ Scheherazade avoided her fate because she knew how to wield the weapon of suspense –the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. E.M. Forster
“ People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be — flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design — but as he strolled about the courts at ni… E.M. Forster
“ Life had proved a blind alley, with a muck heap at the end of it, and he must cut back and start again. E.M. Forster
“ It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love i… E.M. Forster
“ It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must l… E.M. Forster
“ In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine… E.M. Forster
“ Don’t you think there are two greatthings in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’shave both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other. E.M. Forster
“ Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy. E.M. Forster
“ We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the d… E.M. Forster
“ To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more t… E.M. Forster
“ They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. E.M. Forster
“ The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, That is your friend, and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught… E.M. Forster
“ Talk away. If you bore us, we have books.With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it. E.M. Forster
“ THE SIGNORA HAD NO business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a court-yard,… E.M. Forster
“ Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of… E.M. Forster
