The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

Quote by E M Forster

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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

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...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem...

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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...

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

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 woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

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...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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...

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...

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.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...