690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

History develops, art stands still.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.

Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.