M. Forster
M. Forster
country home men
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.
air expression names
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.
way human-nature howards-end
Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
people might individual
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
civilization mind literature
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
growth literature destruction
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
friendship writing finals
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
organization doe literature
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
taste majestic literature
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
lying suffering atheism
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
life joy preparation
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
poverty poet poor
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
funny beauty humor
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
men play two
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.