All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
