690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

I love love I love being in love I don't care what it does to me The Format, in "Inches and Failing". Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.