690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.