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

Quote by E M Forster

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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...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits...

So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits...

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

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...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person...

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of...

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of...

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...

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

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...

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...

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

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...