Book Quote by 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, and march…

— 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 they actually…

— E.M. Forster

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

— 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 what they…

— 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 both are…

— 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. Actual life…

— 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 the very…

— 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 set in…

— 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, with contrary…

— E.M. Forster