690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

And I do believe that Italy really purifies and ennobles all who visit her. She is the school as well as the playground of the world.

Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior.

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

…to descend from bright heaven to earth, whereon there are shadows because there are hills…

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

He told us another day that views are really crowds--crowds of trees and houses and hills--and are bound to resemble each other, like human crowds--and that the power they have over us is sometimes supernatural, for the same reason. […] For a crowd is more than the people who make it up. Something gets added to it--no one knows how--just as something has got added to those hills.

Aveva abbandonato ogni piano d'azione; l'amore è la cosa migliore.

She asked if she could pray for her 'new father'—for the Italian!" "Did you let her?" "I got up without saying anything." "You must have felt just as you did when I wanted to pray for the devil." "He is the devil," cried Harriet. "No, Harriet; he is too vulgar.