“ They had started speaking of women and children - that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few times. Each felt that all he loved best in the world was at stake, deman… E.M. Forster
“ There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started. E.M. Forster
“ The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete—the sadness that is often Life, but should never b… E.M. Forster
“ So does my grocer stigmatize me when I complain of the quality of his sultanas, and he answers in one breath that they are the best sultanas, and how can I expect the best sultanas at that price? E.M. Forster
“ Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing. E.M. Forster
“ She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead and alien; here she was caught in the shawl of night together with ear… E.M. Forster
“ Round every knob and cushion in the house sentiment gathered, a sentiment that was at times personal, but more often a faint piety to the dead, a prolongation of rites that might have ended at the gra… E.M. Forster
“ Quizás nadie quisiese tal amor, pero podía ya no sentirse avergonzado de él, porque aquel amor era él, no el cuerpo o el alma, no alma y cuerpo, sino él viviendo en ambos. E.M. Forster
“ One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution. E.M. Forster
“ One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted. E.M. Forster
“ Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do what they want. And you see through them and laugh at them - and do it. It's not en… E.M. Forster
“ No doubt his wife and children were beautiful too, for people usually get what they already possess. E.M. Forster
“ Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead… E.M. Forster
“ It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. E.M. Forster
“ It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, She loves young Emerson. A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome ner… E.M. Forster
“ It all turns on affection now, said Margaret. Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula. E.M. Forster
“ If Wilcoxes hadn't worked and died in England for thousands of years, you and I couldn't sit here without having our throats cut. There would be no trains, no ships to carry us literary people about i… E.M. Forster
“ He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He lo… E.M. Forster
“ He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale bet… E.M. Forster
