E. M. Forster

Works 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 belive in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

E. M. Forster

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

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

E. M. Forster

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster

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 be large.

E. M. Forster

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

E. M. Forster

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

E. M. Forster

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Reverence is fatal to literature.

E. M. Forster

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forster

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 the line.

E. M. Forster

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

E. M. Forster

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

E. M. Forster

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

E. M. Forster

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

E. M. Forster

Ideas are fatal to caste.

E. M. Forster

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

Works 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 belive in Art for Art's sake.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

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 be large.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

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.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

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 the line.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.