“ I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. E.M. Forster
“ I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enoug… E.M. Forster
“ Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. Th… E.M. Forster
“ You mustn't put off what you think right, said Hamidullah. That is why India is in such a plight, because we put off things. E.M. Forster
“ The haughty nephew ... and an even haughtier wife, both convinced that Germany was appointed by God to govern the world. Aunt July would come the next day, convinced that Great Britain had been appoin… E.M. Forster
“ Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her gri… E.M. Forster
“ She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person. E.M. Forster
“ Ronny’s religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form,… E.M. Forster
“ Love is the best, and the more she let herself love him, the more chance was there that he would set his soul in order. E.M. Forster
“ Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave. E.M. Forster
“ I don’t understand, she said at last. She understood very well, but she no longer wished to be absolutely truthful. How are you going to stop him talking about it? I have a feeling that talk is a thin… E.M. Forster
“ He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased. E.M. Forster
“ He has dreams—not exactly spiritual dreams: but dreams of the tangible and the actual: robust dreams, which take him, not to heaven, but another earth. E.M. Forster
