Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster E M Forster Lgbt Maurice

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Listening

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Colonialism Englishmen India Justice

Most of the inhabitants of India do not mind how India is governed. Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are tired.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Governance India Natural World Tropics

It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India—a hundred Indias—whispered outside beneath the indifferent moon, but for the time India seemed one and their own, and they regained their departed greatness by hearing its departure lamented, they felt young again because reminded that youth must fly.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster India Poetry

Only connect!

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Connect Connection

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers, but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Film Howards End Merchant Ivory Movie

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Out Of Context Unintentional Humor Win

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes, perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.

~ E.m. Forster

E.m. Forster Boys