Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERSpoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. FORSTERBut Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
E. M. FORSTERDo not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
E. M. FORSTERBooks have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
E. M. FORSTERWhat is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERShe had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
E. M. FORSTERThe sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
E. M. FORSTERThe armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
E. M. FORSTER