E. M. Forster Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

  E. M. Forster

  Home, House, Desire

• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Country, Home, Men

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.136, RosettaBooks

• One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Home, Men

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Home, Giving

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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