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Edward Morgan Forster quotes
“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“I am certainly an ought and not a must.”
— Edward Morgan 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.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
“The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.”
— Edward Morgan Forster
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