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Famous E. M. Forster Quotes
“We may divide characters into flat and round.”
“One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.”
“Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.”
“We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.”
“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
“Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.”
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.”
“Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”
“History develops, art stands still.”
“So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
“Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
“I'm a holy man minus the holiness.”
“Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.”
“Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.”
“No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.”
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
“It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.”
“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”