Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. Forster More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness. E. M. Forster petty stupidity hate My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. E. M. Forster erasmus moses law Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women. E. M. Forster sisterhood character reality The so called white races are really pinko-grey. E. M. Forster grey race white Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired. E. M. Forster tired mother dark It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings. E. M. Forster difficult society character You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong. E. M. Forster equality want love God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it. E. M. Forster power god love There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider. E. M. Forster spiders feelings feels The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently. E. M. Forster names character sex One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding. E. M. Forster pudding taste book We may divide characters into flat and round. E. M. Forster literature may character Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over. E. M. Forster men life sex Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes. E. M. Forster values form English literature is a flying fish. E. M. Forster flying fishing literature I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me. E. M. Forster support worry class Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics. E. M. Forster class integrity character England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk. E. M. Forster voice poetry waiting 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. E. M. Forster hypocrite islands thinking How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said? E. M. Forster knows said
