690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding