Top 20 quotes from E. M. Forster

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Top 20 quotes from 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


History develops, art stands still.

E. M. Forster


The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster


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


Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

E. M. Forster


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


Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

E. M. Forster


The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster


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 destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

E. M. Forster


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


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


Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

E. M. Forster


I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

E. M. Forster


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


Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

E. M. Forster


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


The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster


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


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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Top 20 quotes from E. M. Forster