We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Quote by E M Forster

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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...

No one is India.

No one is India.

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...

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

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

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

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

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

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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...

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

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...

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

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...

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....

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...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

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

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

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...