690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

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

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

The strong are so stupid.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.