42 Quotations by Edward M. Forster
- 1. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy d ...
- 2. America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter ...
- 3. Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde ...
- 4. As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e ...
- 5. At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
- 6. Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ...
- 7. Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
- 8. Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when ...
- 9. Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
- 10. Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr ...
- 11. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sp ...
- 12. Ho can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
- 13. I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it ...
- 14. I distrust great men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood, too ...
- 15. I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people ...
- 16. Ideas are fatal to caste.
- 17. If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the gu ...
- 18. Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
- 19. Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
- 20. Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
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