690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.