Hearts still love, don’t they? And break. Hope, fear, jealousy, desire. Your lives may be different. But the feelings are the same. The difference is merely setting, context, costumes. But those are just details.
-- Morgan  (Prologue)

Importance: This quote is taken from the introductory section of the play, in which Morgan - that is, Edwardian novelist E.M. Forster - is urging the young men he is talking with to believe that there is not all that much different between the time period and circumstances in which he wrote and the time period and circumstances in which they are writing. His argument can be seen as relating to the play's overall drawing upon, and reliance upon, one of Forster's novels as source materials for its character, plot, and themes.

Gimme a year. Two at the most. I’m going to finish this play and it’s going to get produced and I...
-- Toby  (Part One, Act One, Scene Three)