32 quotes by E. M. 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.” — E. M. Forster

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“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

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“History develops, art stands still.” — E. M. Forster

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“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.” — E. M. Forster

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“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.” — E. M. Forster

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“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.” — E. M. Forster

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“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.” — E. M. Forster

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“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.” — E. M. Forster

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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” — E. M. Forster

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“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.” — E. M. Forster

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“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.” — E. M. Forster

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“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.” — E. M. Forster

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“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.” — E. M. Forster

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“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.” — E. M. Forster

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“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.” — E. M. Forster

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“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.” — E. M. Forster

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“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.” — E. M. Forster

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“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” — E. M. Forster

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Love is always being given where it is not required.” — E. M. Forster

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“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” — E. M. Forster

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“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.” — E. M. Forster

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