Famous E. M. Forster Quotes And Saying
Edward Morgan Forster (January 1 1879 – July 7 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
E. M. Forster Quotes And Saying:
E. M. Forster Quotes
1. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
― E.M. Forster
2. Don't go fighting against the Spring.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
3. Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
4. It isn't possible to love & part....you can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it ouf of you. Love is eternal.
― E.M. Forster
5. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View / Howards End
6. At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
7. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
― E.M. Forster
8. How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
― E.M. Forster
9. She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
― E.M. Forster
10. Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
11. It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
― E.M. Forster
12. Ideas are fatal to caste.
― E.M. Forster
13. A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
― E.M. Forster
14. Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
15. I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
― E.M. Forster
16. Railway termini . . . are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
― E.M. Forster
17. After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
― E.M. Forster
18. Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
19. 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.
― E.M. Forster
20. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
― E.M. Forster
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