Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong . — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — 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
It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy. — 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
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to… — 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… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — 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
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind.… — 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 seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell… — 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
You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The contest lay not between love and duty. Perhaps there never is such a contest. It lay between the real and the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It… — 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
