E. M. Forster Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Curves, Ideas

• I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

  E. M. Forster

  Humility, Two, Empathy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

• Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

  E. M. Forster

  Mistake, Humility, Hypocrisy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

• Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

  E. M. Forster

  Integrity, Character, Class

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