Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. FORSTERMy temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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