Reverence is fatal to literature.

Quote by E M Forster

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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

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...

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

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.

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...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

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 four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

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....

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

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

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...

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...

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...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

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...

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...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.