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
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — 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
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
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
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. — 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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
