336 Quotes by E.M. Forster

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.

Much love. Modified love to Tibby. Love to Aunt Juley; how good of her to come and keep you company, but what a bore.

Tibby is moderately a dear now," said Helen."There! I knew you'd say that in the end. Of course he's a dear.

The Wilcoxes were not lacking in affection; they had it royally, but they did not know how to use it. It was the talent in the napkin, and, for a warm-hearted man, Charles had conveyed very little joy. As he watched his father shuffling up the road, he had a vague regret—a wish that something had been different somewhere—a wish (though he did not express it thus) that he had been taught to say 'I' in his youth.

Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Mrs. Munt did not see, and indeed Margaret was making a most questionable statement—that any emotion, any interest once vividly aroused, can wholly die.