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
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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.