Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Quote by E M Forster

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

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...

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

History develops, art stands still.

History develops, art stands still.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

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...

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 work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to...

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

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...

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.

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?

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...

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.