E. M. Forster

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

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise…

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him…

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man…

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as…

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it…

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society…

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

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature…

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration…

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

Love is always being given where it is not required…

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it…

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

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be…