Author: E. M. Forster

Quotes

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

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

- 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

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

- E. M. Forster

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

- 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

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

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

- E. M. Forster

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