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…

Quote by E M Forster

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be...

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men...

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.