Quotes by Forster, Edward M.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represen >>

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best s >>

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away >>

Quotations about Ceremony

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage uni >>

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alterati >>

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to >>

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.

Forster, Edward M.