Quotes

She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--not youth's creative power, but its self-confidence and optimism. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster "So few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means." ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster 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. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster "Money pads the edges of things." ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster "This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders." ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville "Omen? omen?--the dictionary! If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honourably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint." ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville