E. M. Forster Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

  E. M. Forster

  Virginia, Light, Missing

• They had nothing in common but the English language.

  E. M. Forster

  Common, Language, English Language

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.308, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Want, Language

• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Flower, Gun

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