M. Forster
M. Forster
atheist thinking church
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.
atheist believe mind
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
love-is doe affair
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
finding-happiness boxes should
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
magic identity elbows
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
shields insult room-with-a-view
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
taken heart eye
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
night tree sun
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
sorrow trying world
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
husband might and-love
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.
accomplishment intention chairs
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
let-her-go cried
Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!
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.
peace war incredibles
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.