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

Quote by E M Forster

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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...

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...

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....

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...

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in...

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in...

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

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

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

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.

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...

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

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.

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.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man...

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man...

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be...

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be...

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...