690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.