Quotes by E M Forster

Reverence is fatal to literature.

#E M Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

#E M Forster

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

#E M Forster

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its...

#E M Forster

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

#E M Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

#E M Forster

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

#Lust

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

#E M Forster

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children...

#E M Forster

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

#E M Forster

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

#E M Forster

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

#E M Forster