More - M. Forster Quotes

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

M. Forster

 Luck

Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--not youth's creative power, but its self-confidence and optimism.

M. Forster

 

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.

M. Forster

 Brains

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's

M. Forster

 

Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

M. Forster

 

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

M. Forster

 Books And Reading

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

M. Forster

 

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

M. Forster

 Betrayal

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

M. Forster

 Thoughts And Thinking

`Can you always tell whether a stranger is your friend?' `Yes.' `Then you are an Oriental.'

M. Forster