M. Forster
M. Forster
guarantees doe masterpiece
Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.
love love-is literature
Love is always being given where it is not required.
men hands spy
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
spirit culinary porridge
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
art people naked
But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.
form values
Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
fishing flying literature
English literature is a flying fish.
integrity character class
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
book taste pudding
One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.
hypocrite thinking islands
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
love god power
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
feelings spiders feels
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
love equality want
You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
class worry support
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.