Source: The Machine Stops
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Famous E. M. Forster Quotes
“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.”
Source: A Room With A View: England Literature
“We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.”
Source: A Room With A View: England Literature
“It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.”
Source: Howards End
“A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.”
Source: A Room With A View: England Literature
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
Source: Howards End: England Literature
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
Source: Howard's End
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”
“Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“History develops, art stands still.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
Source: Howard's End
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)