690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.