E. M. Forster Quotes

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. Forster

Respect, Society, Eternal

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster

Love, Struggle, Together

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.
E. M. Forster

Art, Men, Small

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster

Life, Courage, Either

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. Forster

Holy, Holiness, Minus

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

Evil, Sense, Writer

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Creative, Greater, Writers

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

Hope, Friend, Country

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
E. M. Forster

Person, Another, Reason

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. Forster

Love, Understand, Land

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

Hold, Changed, Vanity

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

Good, Two, Before

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster

Sense, Agnostic, Humour

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. Forster

Money, Rather, Evils

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Freedom, Eyes, Allowed

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster

Life, Art, Sadness

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

Democracy, Two, Criticism

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
E. M. Forster

Stand, Shadow, Wherever

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.
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Life, Find, America

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

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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Stand, Soft, Squashed

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

Beauty, Best, Her

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster

Noise, Beethoven, Sublime

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Death, Him, Idea

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster

Nature, Human, Accept

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: January 1, 1879

Died: June 7, 1970

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