Quotes by
E. M. Forster |
Edward Morgan Forster, 1879-1970 , British writer
English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. | 19 quotes | 1,391 visits |
Quotations
| • | The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. 9 |
| • | Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. 6 |
| • | The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three. 5 |
| • | It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts. 5 |
| • | The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power, and such people get more of a chance under a democracy than elsewhere. 5 |
| • | To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. 4 |
| • | Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. 3 |
| • | Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. 3 |
| • | If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. 3 |
| • | She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. 2 |
| • | After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven? 2 |
| • | Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful? 2 |
| • | A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. 2 |
| • | Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's. 2 |
| • | The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. 2 |
| • | One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. 2 |
| • | Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. 2 |
| • | Poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth. 2 |
| • | There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. 2 |
