“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.” — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — 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
The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always… — 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.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen… — 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 distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — 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
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and… — 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
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes 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
![“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)
