M. Forster
M. Forster
men proud truthful
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.
evil temptation looks
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
people trying here-and-there
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
pads edges
Money pads the edges of things.
writing records novelists
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
moving sunshine darkness
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
life-is-like violin life-is
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
important whats-important impressive
You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
heart tea lips
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
race dust perfection
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
common language english-language
They had nothing in common but the English language.
honesty men soul
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
half hours
She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
running long people
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run