336 Quotes by E.M. Forster

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

In the presence of these women Leonard had arrived, and he spoke with a flow, an exultation, that he had seldom known.

But this place has wonderful powers.""What do you mean?""I don't know.""Because I probably agree with you.""It kills what is dreadful and makes what is beautiful live.

The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained.

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!