690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

O for the night that was ending, for the sleep and the wakefulness, the toughness and tenderness mixed, the sweet temper, the safety in darkness. Would such a night ever return?

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

Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.

Ah, but you see, I didn’t want to be fair.

Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.

When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.

Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven.

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

All men are equal – all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.