More From E. M. Forster
- "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
- "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
- "The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
More In Men
- "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."― Thomas Jefferson
- "Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."― Charles Caleb Colton