690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty- in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub-our immediate duty is to stop it.