“ Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. E.M. Forster
“ Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? E.M. Forster
“ Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it. E.M. Forster
“ And the goblins--they had not really been there at all? They were only the phantoms of cowardice and unbelief? One healthy human impulse would dispel them? Men like the Wilcoxes, or ex-President Roose… E.M. Forster
“ Innocence is not safe in a civilization like ours, where a man must practice a 'ruled undemonstrative distrustfulness' in order to defend himself against traps. This 'ruled undemonstrative distrustful… E.M. Forster
“ 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
“ He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. E.M. Forster
“ Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E.M. Forster
“ Your mistake is this, and it is a very common mistake. This young bounder has a life of his own. What right have you to conclude it is an unsuccessful life, or, as you call it, 'grey'?Because—One minu… E.M. Forster
“ We are not in the law courts. There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart. E.M. Forster
“ This is Ahab, that's Jezebel, said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history. E.M. Forster
“ The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the… E.M. Forster
“ The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not. E.M. Forster
“ Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not. E.M. Forster
“ Oh, Mr Hall, what an ungallant remark. Look at her lovely hair.''I like short hair best.''Why?''Because I can stroke it-' and he began to cry. E.M. Forster
“ Of the many things Lucy was noticing today, not the least remarkable was this: this ghoulish fashion in which respectable people will nibble after blood. E.M. Forster
