Best E. M. Forster Quotes
- I do not believe in Belief. Belief
- But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. Body
- They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference… Bodies
- Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. Evil
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity… Any
- I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and… Aspect
- Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a… Equipped
- Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither. Flower
- The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express. Emotion
- Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. Affair
- Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. Closely
- An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put… Bad
- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist… Better
- America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to… America
- Money pads the edges of things. Edges
- Are not beauty and delicacy the same? Beauty
- If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a… Alter
- It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others? Barriers
- The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man… Career
- One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. Buys
- Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to… Aim
- Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. Anger
- He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to… Arms
- Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into… Comfortable
- In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. Creative
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