I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
E. M. FORSTER
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
-
I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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 -
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. FORSTER -
-
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTER -
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. FORSTER -
-
-
Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
E. M. FORSTER -
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTER -
-
-
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTER -
There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. FORSTER -
Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. FORSTER -
The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
E. M. FORSTER