690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

It’s miles worse for you than that; I’m in love with your gamekeeper.

I’d far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

I should have gone through life half awake if you’d had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here – ” He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. “Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.

One’s favorite book is as elusive as one’s favorite pudding.

I don’t intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life – good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn’t, and shall never, understand.

A happy ending was imperative.

They have yielded to the only enemy that matters – the enemy within.

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice’s spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought “Am I led; am I leading?” Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.