E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM CHwas an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to Indiabrought him his greatest success. He was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1879
E. M. Forster quotes about
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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.
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
I am certainly an ought and not a must.
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.