Reverence is fatal to literature.

Quote by E M Forster

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

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

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.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

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...

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

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...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

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...

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

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...

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 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...

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

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

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.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.