Author: E. M. Forster

Quotes

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

- 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?

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.

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

- E. M. Forster

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

- E. M. Forster

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

- E. M. Forster

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

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

- E. M. Forster

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

- E. M. Forster

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

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

- 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.

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

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