Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. — 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
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
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share
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
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
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share
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
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share
