E. M. Forster Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Love You, Fighting

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1475, Simon and Schuster

• The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

  E. M. Forster

  Suicide, Lying, Feelings

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.275, 谷月社

• Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Believe, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.267, Delphi Classics

• I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Thinking, Littles

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Mirrors, Historical

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.38, RosettaBooks

• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Suffering, Atheism

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

• [...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.

  E. M. Forster

  Christian, Running, Jesus

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.243, Stanford University Press

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