690 Quotes by E. M. Forster

To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war.

But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one’s temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.

I have always been like the Greeks and didn’t know.

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one... Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

Rudeness affected Margaret like a bitter taste in the mouth. It poisoned life. At times it is necessary, but woe to those who employ it without due need.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

It is fate that I am here,? George persisted, ’but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.