I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes. E. M. Forster More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. E. M. Forster tolerance emotional civilization When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations. E. M. Forster blessed long past While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea E. M. Forster heart tea culture She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. E. M. Forster criminals sight firsts 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 truthful proud men I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. 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 strong running men Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. E. M. Forster literature book interesting When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. E. M. Forster be-you i-may-not-be may A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. E. M. Forster falling-in-love writing men Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity. E. M. Forster echoes art thinking You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. E. M. Forster room-with-a-view muddle romantic 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 beautiful inspirational life Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. E. M. Forster men death ideas One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. E. M. Forster certain emotion history Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M. Forster room-with-a-view beautiful people It isn't possible to love and to part. E. M. Forster room-with-a-view possible-love romantic Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. E. M. Forster criticism literature thinking No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts. E. M. Forster he-man men facts He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him. E. M. Forster crush real adventure 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. E. M. Forster caring believe people
