690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

English literature is a flying fish.