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

Quote by E M Forster

Topics: Fate Quotes

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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...

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...

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...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which...

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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

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

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

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.

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...

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

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...

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...

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

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 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 so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man...

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man...

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.