Quotes by E M Forster

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

#E M Forster

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

#E M Forster

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

#E M Forster

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

#E M Forster

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and...

#E M Forster

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

#E M Forster

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

#E M Forster

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is...

#E M Forster

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

#E M Forster