E. M. Forster Giving Quotations

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.