I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country

Quote by E M Forster

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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...

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...

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

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...

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

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.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.