E. M. Forster Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Reading, Long

• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Good Luck, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 12

• Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.

  E. M. Forster

  Humble, People, Luck

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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