E. M. Forster Quotes
1879 – 1970
English novelist, author of "A Room with a View" and "A Passage to India".
25 quotesAbout E. M. Forster on Wikipedia
“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”
“Poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.”
“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”
“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
“You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.”
“Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.”
“It is those who cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone.”
“If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.”
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
“So two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
