Ideas are fatal to caste

Quote by E M Forster

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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

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 distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

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...

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...

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and...

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and...

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...

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

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

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

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.