Quotes
Quotes - Forster
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.
Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Lord I disbelieveâhelp thou my unbelief.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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.
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
