E. M. Forster's Quotes

E. M. Forster's Quotes 66

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who...

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at...

Love is always being given where it is not required.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I...

I hate the idea of causes and if I had to choose between betraying my...

What is the good of your stars and trees your sunrise and the wind if they...

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up...

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the...

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians...

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two...

Death destroys a man but the idea of death saves him.

The main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits...

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