Edward Morgan Forster citáty page 4

„Kto sa ženie za vlastnými výhodami, skoro sa stane slepým voči skutočným hodnotám.“

„Muž, ktorý predáva noviny vonku pred Parlamentom, môže spokojne nechať noviny, položiť vedľa nich čapicu a ísť si vypiť. Každý, kto si vezme noviny, iste hodí mincu do čapice. Ale muži, ktorí sú v Parlamente, si nemôžu takto navzájom dôverovať, a ešte menej môže vláda, ktorú reprezentujú, dôverovať iným vládam. Nie sú tam žiadne čapice na dlažbe.“

„Tvoriví spisovatelia sú vždy väčší, ako záležitosti, ktoré predstavujú.“

„Človek musí mať rád ľudí a dôverovať im, ak si nechce pokaziť život.“

“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”

Edward Morgan Forster: Citáty v angličtine

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

Zdroj: The Life to Come and Other Stories

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Passage to India

Zdroj: A Passage to India

“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”

E.M. Forster kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End

“They had nothing in common but the English language.”

“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 kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”

E.M. Forster kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

E.M. Forster kniha Maurice

Zdroj: Maurice

“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Room with a View

Zdroj: A Room with a View

“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”

E.M. Forster kniha Where Angels Fear to Tread

Zdroj: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Passage to India

Zdroj: A Passage to India

“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Room with a View

Zdroj: A Room with a View

“We move between two darknesses.”

Zdroj: A Room with a View / Howards End

“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”

E.M. Forster kniha Aspects of the Novel

Zdroj: Aspects of the Novel

“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Passage to India

Zdroj: A Passage to India

“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”

E.M. Forster kniha Where Angels Fear to Tread

Zdroj: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

E.M. Forster kniha Maurice

Zdroj: Maurice

“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Room with a View

Zdroj: A Room with a View

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

E.M. Forster kniha Maurice

Zdroj: Maurice

“All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.”

E.M. Forster kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”

E.M. Forster kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

E.M. Forster kniha A Passage to India

Zdroj: A Passage to India

“I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.”

E.M. Forster kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”

E.M. Forster kniha Maurice

Zdroj: Maurice

“You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.”

“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned….”

E.M. Forster kniha Where Angels Fear to Tread

Zdroj: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”

E.M. Forster kniha Maurice

Zdroj: Maurice

“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

E.M. Forster kniha Maurice

Zdroj: Maurice

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

E.M. Forster kniha Howards End

Zdroj: Howards End