E. M. Forster Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
E. M. Forster quotes and sayings page 5 (novelist). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 88 we have.
“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
“Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”
“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
“Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”
“Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.”
“There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.”
“The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”
“There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.”
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