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E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 14

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In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

Atheist, Thinking, Church

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Romantic, Love Is, Poet

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

Flower, Truth Is, Neighbourhoods

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Courage, Literature, Be Courageous

"Pharos and Pharillon" by E.M. Forster, 1923.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Two, Style, Generations

"Two Cheers for Democracy". Book by E. M. Forster, 1951.

In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain.

Running, Bullying, Nice

"A Passage to India".

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

Love, God, Power

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

Hypocrite, Thinking, Islands

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Doe, Next, Happens

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Men, Two, Play

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

Plot, Elements, Detectives

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.132, RosettaBooks

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Art, Sadness, Should

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.446, Delphi Classics

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Love, Passion, Men

Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Sorrow, Trying, World

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.371, Delphi Classics

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

Husband, And Love, Might

E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.151, 谷月社

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

Fate, Sound, Looks

E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.656, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

Hate, Stupidity, Petty

E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.71, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

India, Asking, Literature

'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 8

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.

Photography, Children, Passion

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

Life, Ordinary, Needs

Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 216, to Florence Barger, February 11, 1922.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Life, Relationship, Important

'Howards End' (1910) ch. 19

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Struggle, Lust, Together

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Rubbish, Literature, Logic

E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.152, RosettaBooks

I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.

Thinking, Said, Knows

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Pain, Giving, Publicity

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