Top 500 E. M. Forster Quotes (2024 Update)
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E. M. Forster Quote: “As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.”

201. “As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.”

202. “It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”

203. “In the dawn of the world our weakly must be exposed on Mount Taygetus, in its twilight our strong will suffer euthanasia, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress, that the Machine may progress eternally.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism – that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.”

204. “Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism – that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.”

205. “The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.”

206. “I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Don’t believe those lies about intellectual people. They’re only written to soothe the majority.”

207. “Don’t believe those lies about intellectual people. They’re only written to soothe the majority.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious – that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”

208. “It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious – that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The sky settles everything – not only climates and seasons but when the earth shall be beautiful.”

209. “The sky settles everything – not only climates and seasons but when the earth shall be beautiful.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I am swathed in cant’, she thought, ’and it is good for me to be stripped of it.”

210. “I am swathed in cant’, she thought, ’and it is good for me to be stripped of it.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine.”

211. “People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.”

212. “I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”

213. “Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.”

214. “When we poor blacks take bribes, we perform what we are bribed to perform, and the law discovers us in consequence. The English take and do nothing. I admire them.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”

215. “Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.”

216. “My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!”

217. “London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”

218. “We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”

219. “The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning.”

220. “This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now... and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”

221. “You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now... and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”

222. “Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”

223. “The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

224. “But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Man can learn everything if he will but try.”

225. “Man can learn everything if he will but try.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “I was yours once ’till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now – I can’t hang about whining forever – and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

226. “I was yours once ’till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now – I can’t hang about whining forever – and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “You show so very clearly that intelligence and sympathy are superficial – good enough things in their way – they do what they can and would gladly do more; but the real thing is “being there”, and the worst of it is, no two human beings can be in the same place.”

227. “You show so very clearly that intelligence and sympathy are superficial – good enough things in their way – they do what they can and would gladly do more; but the real thing is “being there”, and the worst of it is, no two human beings can be in the same place.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms. Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well.”

228. “The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms. Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.”

229. “There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”

230. “Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”

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E. M. Forster Quote: “We move between two darknesses.”

231. “We move between two darknesses.”

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E. M. Forster Quote: “It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.”

232. “It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”

233. “The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run.”

234. “If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”

235. “It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “He was thinking of the irony of friendship – so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.”

236. “He was thinking of the irony of friendship – so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls “Come” through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”

237. “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls “Come” through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Love is always being given where it is not required.”

238. “Love is always being given where it is not required.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”

239. “America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

240. “She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “It’s miles worse for you than that; I’m in love with your gamekeeper.”

241. “It’s miles worse for you than that; I’m in love with your gamekeeper.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”

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

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.”

243. “Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.”

244. “She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.”

245. “Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.”

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E. M. Forster Quote: “If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.”

246. “If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.”

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E. M. Forster Quote: “Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”

247. “Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.”

248. “Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.”

249. “Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.”

— E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster Quote: “Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element – direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine – the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.”

250. “Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element – direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine – the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.”

— E. M. Forster

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