Quotes E. M. Forster

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

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers,...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and...

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed....

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion t...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that ha...

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a q...

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration....

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that the...

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

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him....

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life....

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature....

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

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

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immut...

History develops, art stands still....

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?...

I am certainly an ought and not a must....

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

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet,...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity ar...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between be...

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