690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Love is always being given where it is not required.