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

Topics: Betrayal Quotes

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.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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...

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

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...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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...

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...

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

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

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem...

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem...

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

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...