Authors:

E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Adventure Age Art Atheism Belief Character Children Creativity Criticism Culture Curiosity Darkness Democracy Desire Earth Evil Fate Feelings Fighting Friendship Giving Heart Heaven Hills History Home Horror House Human Nature Husband Imagination Inspirational Joy Judging Language Life Literature Logic Love Luck Lying Memories Passion Past Poetry Reading Romance Romantic Love Running Sleep Society Sorrow Soul Stupidity Sunshine Teaching Tolerance Understanding Universe Values War Writing
... there are shadows because there are hills.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

E. M. Forster
Shadow, Hills, Room With A View
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.444, Delphi Classics

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
Thinking, People, Three

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

E. M. Forster
Men, Trying, Ifs
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.87, RosettaBooks

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

E. M. Forster
Night, Tree, Sun
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.83, RosettaBooks

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

E. M. Forster
Believe, Soul, Gains
E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.105, 谷月社

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

E. M. Forster
Men, Literature, Holiness
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

E. M. Forster
Fashion, Clothes, Deep Life
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

E. M. Forster
Giving, After Death
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.37, RosettaBooks

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

E. M. Forster
Love Is, Thinking, World
E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.183, 谷月社

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster
Love, Love Is, Literature
Selected Letters: Letter 137, to Syed Ross Masood, December 5, 1914.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

E. M. Forster
Drama, Sometimes, Life Is
E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.3, 谷月社

Money pads the edges of things.

E. M. Forster
Pads, Edges
E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.59, Sheba Blake Publishing

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

E. M. Forster
Running, Character, Long
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.129, RosettaBooks

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

E. M. Forster
Memories, Stupid, People
E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

E. M. Forster
Book, Reading, Writing
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

E. M. Forster
Thinking, Understanding, Too Much

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

E. M. Forster
Long, People, Immortality
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.255, RosettaBooks

One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

E. M. Forster
Running, Giving, Turns
E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.92, Stanford University Press

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

E. M. Forster
Real, Love You, Romantic Love

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
Greatness, Men, Blood
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

E. M. Forster
Needs, Care, May
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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

E. M. Forster
Death, Men, Ideas
E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

E. M. Forster
Heart, Tea, Culture
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

E. M. Forster
Book, Reading, Long

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

E. M. Forster
Running, Strong, Men
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.674, Delphi Classics

You May Also Like: