Quotes of Edward M. Forster

“ Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! We return. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Adventure

“ Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due — she reminds us too much of a prima donna. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Amazed

“ The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally… ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Business

“ 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. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Beast

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Betrayal

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Betrayal

“ The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Book

“ We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Bard

“ The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally… ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Board

“ Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Boring

“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Bottom

“ One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Blarney

“ The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally… ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Commerce

“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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College

“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Container

“ Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Classify

“ Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Caution

“ We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Contention

“ Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Carnal

“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Curious

“ Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Concealment

“ A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Clumsy

“ A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Ceremony

“ 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. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Connect

“ Two cheers for Democracy: one, because it admits variety and two, because it permits criticism. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Consent

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Country

“ Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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City

“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Curiosity

“ The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Career

“ There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ”

- Edward M. Forster

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Creed

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“ Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! We return. ”

“ Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due — she reminds us too much of a prima donna. ”

“ The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally… ”

“ 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. ”

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

“ The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ”

“ We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ”

“ The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally… ”

“ Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. ”

“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”

“ One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. ”

“ The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally… ”

“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”

“ Oxford is — Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ”

“ Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. ”

“ Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ”

“ We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ”

“ Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. ”

“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”

“ Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ”

“ A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. ”

“ A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of 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. ”

“ Two cheers for Democracy: one, because it admits variety and two, because it permits criticism. ”

“ If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. ”

“ Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. ”

“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”

“ The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. ”

“ There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ”