42 Quotations by Edward M. Forster
- 21. One always tends to over-praise a long book, because one has got through it.
- 22. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil ...
- 23. Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage ou ...
- 24. Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t ...
- 25. Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t ...
- 26. Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventu ...
- 27. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
- 28. The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an ...
- 29. The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will ...
- 30. The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should ...
- 31. The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
- 32. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the ...
- 33. The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little fart ...
- 34. There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d ...
- 35. Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of ...
- 36. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is neg ...
- 37. Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves ...
- 38. Two cheers for Democracy: one, because it admits variety and two, because it permits criticism.
- 39. Unless we remember, we cannot understand.
- 40. Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; ...
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