The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip
themselves at the expense of joy.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 7
The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly even escape
from those whom they no longer love.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 7
Certainly London fascinates...It lies beyond everything: Nature, with all her cruelty, comes
nearer to us than do those crowds of men.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 13
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams
and anger.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 19
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human
love will be seen at its height.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 22
Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 27
Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissue
with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.
‘Howards End’ (1910) ch. 41
It’s the worse thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you’ve got to mind it...
They’ll come saying, ‘Bear up—trust to time.’ No, no; they’re wrong. Mind it.
‘The Longest Journey’ (1907) ch. 5
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children,
playing or quarrelling on the line.
‘The Longest Journey’ (1907) ch. 12
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity (coarseness, revealing
something; vulgarity, concealing something).
‘The Longest Journey’ (1907) ch. 26
The so-called white races are really pinko-grey.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 7
Nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to
merge in something else.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 8
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce ‘boum’.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 14
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would
describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
‘A Passage to India’ (1924) ch. 14
Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing