Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Quote by E M Forster

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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.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

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

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

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....

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 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...

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

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.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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...