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11 quotes from A Passage to India by E. M. Forster. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #61221 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.
But she did not take the disappointment as seriously as Miss Quested, for the reason that she was forty years older, and had learnt that Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
“Why can’t we be friends now?”
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXXVII
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XI
I’d far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XI
There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXII
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,” said an old gentleman with a beard. “I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IV
It was unbearable, and he thought again, “How unhappy I am!” and became happier.
“Man can learn everything if he will but try.”
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VIII
‘What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together?’
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VII