E.M. Forster

“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain,…

— E.M. Forster

“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people…

— 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

“Oh, what's the use of your fairmindedness if you never decide for yourself? Anyone gets hold of you and makes you do…

— E.M. Forster

“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If…

— E.M. Forster

“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.…

— E.M. Forster

“Everything seems just alike in these days.”

— E.M. Forster

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

— E.M. Forster

“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from…

— E.M. Forster

“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.”

— E.M. Forster

“Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only…

— 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

“But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can…

— E.M. Forster

“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player…

— E.M. Forster

“He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.”

— E.M. Forster

“I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it.”

— E.M. Forster

“We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.”

— E.M. Forster

“Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.”

— E.M. Forster

“One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been…

— E.M. Forster

“Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!”

— E.M. Forster

“He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus…

— E.M. Forster

“And Englishmen like posing as gods.”

— E.M. Forster

“This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old…

— E.M. Forster

“Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”

— E.M. Forster

“He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across…

— E.M. Forster