690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.