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troubled to the extreme limit of trouble by his radiant face and by the damnation for all souls which shone from it
~ E. Powys Mathers
eyes were closed again. Apparently she didn't find dragon flight as exciting
~ E.D. Baker
That horrid little witch Emma sent us here with her magic. Here, what's this?
~ E.D. Baker
It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
~ E.M. Forster
I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure.
~ E.M. Forster
He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.
~ E.M. Forster
I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people's backs up. He has no tact and no manners - I don't mean by that that he has bad manners - and he will not keep his opinions to himself
~ E.M. Forster
He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.
~ E.M. Forster
He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
~ E.M. Forster
The story that is a story and sounded so healthy and stood no nonsense cannot sincerely lead to any conclusion but the grave.
~ E.M. Forster
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She
~ E.M. Forster
Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
~ E.M. Forster
You could call your cousin a shit if you liked, but not an eunuch. Rotten style!
~ E.M. Forster
How annoyed I am with Society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges, the self-consciousness that might have been avoided
~ E.M. Forster
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise.
~ E.M. Forster
a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good...
~ E.M. Forster
and beneath his chivalry to Miss Quested resentment lurked, waiting its day - perhaps there is a grain of resentment in all chivalry.
~ E.M. Forster
Look at those flies on the ceiling. Why have you not drowned them?" "Huzoor, they return." "Like all evil things.
~ E.M. Forster
For a month we had been, I suppose, the thickest thieves in all London, and yet our intimacy was curiously incomplete.
~ E.W. Hornung
At Philippi, Bunny, where I said I'd see him. What a rabbit you are at a quotation! "'And I think that the field of Philippi Was where Cæsar came to an end; But who gave old Brutus the tip, I Can't comprehend!' "You may have forgotten your Shakespeare, Bunny, but you ought to remember that.
~ E.W. Hornung
He has been sitting here looking at me more in sorrow than in anger for the better part of an hour, and I've made up my mind to one thing. I shall have no more secrets from the police.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it. Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith.
~ Earl Lee
DAY ACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU
~ Earl Nightingale