E. M. Forster Quotes

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

Faith, Mind, Process

I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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

Life, Women, Experience

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

Great, Men, Around

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. Forster

Faith, Individual, Mystic

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

Person, Down, Three

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

Friends, Possible, Might

Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster

Ideas, Caste, Fatal

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster

Words, Earth, House

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster

Fate, Perhaps, Fools

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster

Mind, Vice, Vulgar

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster

Life, Easy, Practice

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster

Good, Logic, Gracious

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster

Time, Incredible, Inevitable

No one is India.
E. M. Forster

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster

Beauty, Nonsense, Close

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
E. M. Forster

Truth, Nothing, Emotions

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster

Children, Why, Themselves

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

Love, Another, Rather

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster

Piety, Paganism, Infectious

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster

Death, Nothing, Lives

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster

Sunshine, Through, Adventure

Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster

Literature, Reverence, Fatal

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
E. M. Forster

Mind, State, Sound

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster

Growth, English, Genuine

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: January 1, 1879

Died: June 7, 1970

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