E.M. Forster, A Passage To India Quotes

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

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

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

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