Margaret Forster Quotes

#1. After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.

Judd Trichter

#2. It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.

E. M. Forster

#3. Life has to have the plenitude of art.

Edward Hirsch

#4. 156. By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Ovid

#5. Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image. Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.

E. M. Forster

#6. What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

Margaret Drabble

#7. The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated.

E. M. Forster

#8. Margaret could not reply. Was he incredibly stupid, or did he understand her better than she understood herself?

E. M. Forster

#9. Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Will Durant

#10. God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.

Margaret Forster

#11. A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

Nicolas Chamfort

#12. Yes, I think the apostle spoons could have gone as rent," said Margaret.

E. M. Forster

#13. We're going to go to something called a restaurant.Cody explains from the back seat of the car that it's what people do when they don't want to cook at home. Or when they want better food than what their mother can make.

Jessica Brody

#14. How does this even happen? How can someone you love be there one second and then gone the next?

Ilona Andrews

#15. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

#16. There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds.

E. M. Forster

#17. I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

Margaret Forster

#18. I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

Margaret Forster

#19. I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#20. I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.

Margaret Forster

#21. People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

Margaret Forster

#22. The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

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