E. M. Forster Quotes

Best Quotes by E. M. Forster (Top 10)

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.
E. M. Forster
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. Forster
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country
E. M. Forster
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
E. M. Forster
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E. M. Forster
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.
E. M. Forster
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness — much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
E. M. Forster