690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

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

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Deprived of support it perished or was re-absorbed into the part of the mind that seldom speaks.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice.Maurice felt uneasy."Then you understand - without me saying more - ""How do you mean?"Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you.

-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.