690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?