Howards End Quotes

• All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Umbrella, Equal

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, People, Care

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• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  E. M. Forster

  Poverty, Poet, Poor

  Howards End Chapter 6

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• Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Passion, Fragments

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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• To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

  E. M. Forster

  Luxury, People, Poor

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 5

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• A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Death, Men, Funeral

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Caring, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.624, Delphi Classics

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• Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

  E. M. Forster

  Way, Human Nature, Humans

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.577, Delphi Classics

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• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

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• The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.

  E. M. Forster

  Song, Tree, Moments

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Passion, Men

  Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

  E. M. Forster

  Mind, Vices, Literature

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

  E. M. Forster

  Strength, Success, Taken

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

  E. M. Forster

  Stars, Wind, Tree

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

  E. M. Forster

  Glorious, Gates, Railway

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

  E. M. Forster

  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Squares, Heaven

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• 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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• All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

  Voltaire

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

  1759 Candide, ch.30.

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• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Symphony, Sublime

  Howards End (1910) ch. 5

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• Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Classic, Prose

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 22

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• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  E. M. Forster

  Mother, War, Grateful

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.75, 谷月社

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• They had nothing in common but the English language.

  E. M. Forster

  Common, Language, English Language

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.308, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Trying, Majority

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

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• Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

  E. M. Forster

  Passion, Flirting, Law

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

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