690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he’d die. Only isn’t it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won’t it be part of your own flesh and spirit?

He mourned his wife more sincerely because he mourned her seldom.

Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho–Yung thought Chi–Bo–Sing thought LafcadioHearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.

Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions – her own soul.

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.

And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind – the knowledge that they could never be parted because their love was rooted in common things.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

But this is something new!′ said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable.