One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTERPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
-
-
I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTER -
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. FORSTER -
I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
E. M. FORSTER -
There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. FORSTER -
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTER -
Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTER -
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
E. M. FORSTER -
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTER -
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTER -
She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
E. M. FORSTER -
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
E. M. FORSTER -
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.
E. M. FORSTER -
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER -
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. FORSTER -
I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
E. M. FORSTER