E. M. ForsterTheir quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards. ✨ Howard's End.372Time
E. M. ForsterIn the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor … ▶372LifeReflectionTruth
E. M. ForsterIt is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow… ▶361Sadness
E. M. ForsterHuman beings have their great chance in the novel. ✨ E. M. Forster (2010). Aspects of the Novel, p.241, RosettaBooks372HumanityReading
E. M. ForsterHe stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beau… ▶373SadnessThought
E. M. ForsterCuriosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually st… ▶373HumanityLifeReading
E. M. ForsterWorks of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe i… ▶373Politics
E. M. ForsterOnly a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.351LoveTime
E. M. ForsterHow can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the ma… ▶362ReadingThought
E. M. ForsterThey had nothing in common but the English language. ✨ E.M. Forster (2015). Howards End, p.308, Sheba Blake Publishing351Philosophy
E. M. ForsterOnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ✨ E. M. Forster (1987). Commonplace Book, p.18, Stanford University Press351Reading
E. M. ForsterThere's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated), p.371, Delphi Cl… ▶363Sadness
E. M. ForsterThe people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. ✨ E.M. Forster (1951). Two Cheers for Democracy352DeathHumanity
E. M. ForsterSchool was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovel… ▶374LifeLoveTime
E. M. ForsterAn efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. ✨ What… ▶363Humor
E. M. ForsterHe had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passin… ▶352LoveThought
E. M. ForsterDo we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated),… ▶363Humanity
E. M. ForsterHave you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected Works of … ▶374HumanityTime
E. M. ForsterYou confuse what's important with what's impressive. ✨ E M Forster (2011). Maurice, p.27, Hachette UK352Humanity
E. M. ForsterBooks have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. ✨ E. M. Forster (2010). Aspects of the Novel, p.28, RosettaBooks353Reading
E. M. ForsterThe historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal … ▶375DeathLife
E. M. ForsterThere lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ✨ E.M. Forster (1951). Two Cheers for Democracy… ▶342Politics
E. M. ForsterThe more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. ✨ What I Believe. Essay by E. M. Forster, The Nation, July 16, 1938.375Life
E. M. ForsterI am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian!… ▶375ReadingThought
E. M. ForsterAziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart. ✨ E. M. Forster (2010). A Passage to India, p.270… ▶364LoveReading
E. M. ForsterPersonal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. ✨ 'Howards End' (1910) ch. 19342Life
E. M. ForsterYou do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he'… ▶343DeathLove
E. M. ForsterI distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ✨ E.… ▶332Thought
E. M. ForsterWhen that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many… ▶354Humanity
E. M. ForsterFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected W… ▶332Truth
