Quotes by E M Forster

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

#Questioning

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

#Music

History develops, art stands still.

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

#E M Forster

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

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

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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

#E M Forster

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to...

#E M Forster

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her...

#E M Forster