Man can learn everything if he will but try. E. M. Forster More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. E. M. Forster believe lying people They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon. E. M. Forster pursuit horizon humanity Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure. E. M. Forster obsessed obsession purity America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. E. M. Forster life america interesting The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. E. M. Forster destruction growth literature Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle. E. M. Forster failure fighting stars Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. E. M. Forster ends beautiful children It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper. E. M. Forster miles We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. E. M. Forster freedom-of-speech fear past The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not. E. M. Forster regret yesterday today The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. E. M. Forster kingdoms culture world I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them. E. M. Forster littles lying thinking It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much. E. M. Forster gestures degrees mean 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. E. M. Forster three people thinking Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. Forster be-courageous literature courage I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. E. M. Forster unspeakable wilde oscars It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted. E. M. Forster persecuted like-me people One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! E. M. Forster niceness retorts Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. E. M. Forster squash literature ifs The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. E. M. Forster suicide feelings lying
