E. M. Forster Quotes

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

To be social is to be forgiving.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It's hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.