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
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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.
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.
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.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
We may divide characters into flat and round.