E. M. Forster Quotes

E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
English Novelist
Born: Jan 1, 1879
Died: Jun 7, 1970
Good Life Love Man Nothing People
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens Emily Bronte J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Life Waiting Willing Must Go Us Planned Let Go
Unless we remember we cannot understand. E. M. Forster
Remember Brainy Unless We Cannot Understand Cannot
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. E. M. Forster
Shadow Something Cast Wherever Stand
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster
Long Nothing Run Shape Long Run Feeding Spoon Us Teaches
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E. M. Forster
Mom Meet Would Would-Be More Various Could Sure Mothers Am Nations Wars
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
Good Daily Nature Sunrise Wind Stars Trees Our Enter Your Lives Daily Lives
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
Great Man Wonderful Great Literature About Towards Wrote Reads Condition Literature Who
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. E. M. Forster
Life Practice Chronicle Easy Bewildering
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. E. M. Forster
Love Tolerance Dramatic We Cannot Something Only Civilization Only Love Fact Emotional Namely Know Affairs Cannot Public Public Affairs Personally Much Less Rebuilding Needed
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster
Democracy Criticism Admit Variety Cheers Because Permits Two
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
Freedom Censorship Nervous Past Enough Dangers We Cannot Willing Outcome Admit About She Safely Praise Foresee Get Tucked In The Past Cannot Amidst Whose Away Her Present Nuisance
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
Death People Own Nothing Nothingness Our Shall Beyond Well Deaths Differ Even Lives
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. E. M. Forster
Time Inevitable Incredible Most Quarrels Afterwards
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. E. M. Forster
Life Joy Those Emergencies Equip Beforehand May Expense Themselves Who Prepared
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster
Democracy Criticism Admit Variety Cheers Because Permits Two
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. E. M. Forster
Life Courage Entails Ceases Either
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
Sunshine Glorious Unknown Our Out Through Adventure Return Pass Them Railway Alas Gates
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. E. M. Forster
Me People Three Down Think Types Paper Only Like Got Am Person Irritate Really Who
Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. Forster
Caste Ideas Fatal
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. E. M. Forster
Words Earth House Mansions Many
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. E. M. Forster
Dignity Collective Fire Books Drawn Attain Curtains Night
Reverence is fatal to literature. E. M. Forster
Reverence Literature Fatal
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
Life Me Man Women Experience Made Feeling Meal One-Man Seeing Give Give Me Sort Deals Am Leave Which Theatrical Full Used Multiplicity Play Two
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster
Poet Statistician Only Unthinkable Concerned Very Poor
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. E. M. Forster
Life You Will Find Rather Like Look Sure America Interesting Large
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster
Distinction Something Concealing Between Vulgarity Revealing His Very Notable
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