You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
E. M. FORSTERMoney pads the edges of things.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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