The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. — 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
'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I love love I love being in love I don't care what it does to me The Format, in "Inches and Failing".… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily… — 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… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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
All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.” — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . . — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along — 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
![“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess…” quote by E. M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d93/e-m-forster-1118_august_in-europe-life-retreats-out-of-the-cold_1674386.jpg)
