E. M. Forster Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Men, Class

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, 1938.

• Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Taken, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Horror, Middle

• Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Growing, Emotion

• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Class, Worry, Support

  "Liberty In England", Speech (June 21, 1935), reprinted in "Abinger Harvest", 1936.

• Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

  E. M. Forster

  Sex, Age, Mating

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.78, RosettaBooks

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