The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 10
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 7
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 6
Love is always being given where it is not required. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 5
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 4
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 3
How can I know what I think till I see what I say? E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 3
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 3
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 1
I 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. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. E. M. Forster English Novelist More E. M. Forster Quotes 0