“ He is rather a peculiar man. Again he hesitated, and then said gently: I think he would not take advantage of your acceptance, nor expect you to show gratitude. He has the merit—if it is one—of saying… E.M. Forster
“ He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish. E.M. Forster
“ He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec’s turn to bring out the hero in him E.M. Forster
“ God has put us on earth to love our neighbors and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding. E.M. Forster
“ But a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it. E.M. Forster
“ We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two. E.M. Forster
“ 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
“ You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that… E.M. Forster
“ Why can't we be friends now? said the other, holding him affectionately. It's what I want. It's what you want. But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up… E.M. Forster
“ We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love… E.M. Forster
“ To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. E.M. Forster
“ There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full o… E.M. Forster
“ The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. E.M. Forster
“ She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal co… E.M. Forster
“ Remember that we must all die: all these personal relations we try tolive by are temporary. I used to feel death selected people, it is a notion one gets from novels, because some of the characters ar… E.M. Forster
“ Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart; men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexp… E.M. Forster
“ One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter. E.M. Forster
“ One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, was the retort; one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! E.M. Forster
