Best E. M. Forster Lines
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. Birth
- The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. Belief
- Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. Creation
- Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. Culture
- Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting… Able
- One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. Always Tends
- Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! Good
- History develops, art stands still. Art
- Unless we remember we cannot understand. Brainy
- 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… Affair
- The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. Ashamed
- What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. Condition
- If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Betray
- So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Admit
- There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on… Children
- A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. Hangs
- The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. Art
- How can I know what I think till I see what I say? Inspirational
- At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. Attain
- Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. All
- But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. Asking
- I am certainly an ought and not a must. Funny
- The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Behave
- Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. Into
- To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. Art
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