690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.