21 Quotes by H.M. Forester

There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around.

An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.

There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.

Smoking is suicide by instalments.

It’s not simply a matter of accumulating data points, though in the early stages there is a necessity to take the raw material on-board. If anything, rather than carrying a large inventory, knowledge arrives “just in time”, without the expensive overhead of warehousing, in response to the needs of time, place, people and circumstances.

I? This is the very root of all evil.