black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.

E. M. Forster

Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
E. M. FORSTER

Again Happen Nearly Nothing Period Pleasure Pretend Register Thrill
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTER

Evil Makem Goodness Readable Sense Writer
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. FORSTER

Belief Characteristics Curiosity Food Good Human Humanism Mind Race Taste
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
E. M. FORSTER

Apply Faith Mental Mind Ought Possible Process Sort Starch Stiffening Straight
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

Back Caught Cry Dammed Fell Flame Happen Hold Indignant Other Saw
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTER

Brave Coward Hurtbrave People Rather
Do 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. FORSTER

Equipped Impressive Inconsistency Pity Proud Same
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTER

Difficult Glorious Life Very
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
E. M. FORSTER

Depth Let Meaning Pull Sunlight Thought Understand Yourself
So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTER

Away Certainty Country Men People Person Run Shall
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTER

Died Grief Kind Plot Queen Story
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTER

Buy Evil Look Money One Rather Tempt Thing
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTER

Faith Individual Mystic People
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTER

Fond Life Make Mess Must One People Trust
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

Aziz Being Express Heart Man Many Mine Slowly Way Wink
… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTER

Hill Shadow

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More E. M. Forster Quotes