E.M. Forster

“He was inaccurate because he was sensitive.”

— E.M. Forster

“Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.”

— E.M. Forster

“Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”

— E.M. Forster

“Everything seems just alike in these days.”

— E.M. Forster

“Too late... everything's always too late.”

— E.M. Forster

“The song of the future must transcend creed.”

— E.M. Forster

“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”

— E.M. Forster

“Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal.”

— E.M. Forster

“If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better,”

— E.M. Forster

“Discussion keeps a house alive. It cannot stand by bricks and mortar alone.”

— E.M. Forster

“Fielding! how's one to see the real India?" "Try seeing Indians.”

— E.M. Forster

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”

— E.M. Forster

“... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.”

— E.M. Forster

“Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which.”

— E.M. Forster

“For he possessed a soul that could suffer but not stifle, and led a steady life beneath his mutability.”

— E.M. Forster

“True socialism is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.”

— E.M. Forster

“Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.”

— E.M. Forster

“Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec…

— E.M. Forster

“Don’t you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s have both if…

— E.M. Forster

“Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.”

— E.M. Forster

“Indeed, he was sensitive rather than responsive. In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his…

— E.M. Forster

“They too entered the world of dreams- that world in which a third of each man's life is spent, and which is…

— E.M. Forster

“We are not in the law courts. There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest…

— E.M. Forster

“There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it…

— E.M. Forster

“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally…

— E.M. Forster

“They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased…

— E.M. Forster

“She watched the moon, whose radiance stained with primrose the purple of the surrounding sky. In England the moon had seemed dead…

— E.M. Forster

“There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of…

— E.M. Forster

“Ronny’s religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave…

— E.M. Forster

“How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy…

— E.M. Forster

“She was parting from these Wilcoxes for the second time. Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her…

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“Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She…

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“Eccolo!” he exclaimed. At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. Light…

— E.M. Forster

“I don’t understand,” she said at last. She understood very well, but she no longer wished to be absolutely truthful. “How are…

— E.M. Forster

“And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with the English…

— E.M. Forster

“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and…

— E.M. Forster

“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy…

— E.M. Forster

“You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just…

— E.M. Forster

“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind,…

— E.M. Forster

“They had started speaking of “women and children”—that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few…

— E.M. Forster