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

Quote by E M Forster

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

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

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...

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.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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...

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.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

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?

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Lawn as white as driven snow

Lawn as white as driven snow

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny...

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny...

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more...

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more...