M. Forster
M. Forster
adventure muddle
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
beautiful thinking voice
I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
christianity ends obliged
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
men literature agnostic
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
life-and-love giving want
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
care may gestures
At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
distance gentleman ears
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
romance pairs unexpected
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
romantic possible-love room-with-a-view
It isn't possible to love and to part.
inspirational education running
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
book reading long
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
remembered
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
reading men literature
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
emotional civilization tolerance
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.