“ No, he is not tactful, yet 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
“ My conviction, says the mystic, gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it, and they had agreed that there was something beyond life’s daily grey. E.M. Forster
“ Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangle… E.M. Forster
“ Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. E.M. Forster
“ Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it. E.M. Forster
“ It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious - that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil. E.M. Forster
“ It is only that people are far more different than is pretended. All over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are supposed to develop. Here and there they have the… E.M. Forster
“ If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other… E.M. Forster
“ How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled… E.M. Forster
“ He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary. E.M. Forster
“ He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail. E.M. Forster
“ An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe. E.M. Forster
“ Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength tha… E.M. Forster
“ A word of advice. Don't take up that sentimental attitude over the poor. See that she doesn't, Margaret. The poor are poor, and one's sorry for them, but there it is. As civilisation moves forward, th… E.M. Forster
“ You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say: ‘It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious’—that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidenc… E.M. Forster
“ You have not been yourself all day, said Henry, and rose from his seat with face unmoved. Margaret rushed at him and seized both his hands. She was transfigured.Not any more of this! she cried. You sh… E.M. Forster
“ You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.- Every… E.M. Forster
“ You care for me a little bit, I do think, he admitted, but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You don't. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic or no… E.M. Forster
