“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
Beauty
“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
RespectAll Quotes by E. M. Forster
“The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.”
Poetry“Love is always being given where it is not required.”
Love“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Life“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
Faith“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
Poetry“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
Nature“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
Art“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.”
Experience“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
Hope“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
Art“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.”
Money“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
Truth“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”
Death“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
Freedom“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
Beauty“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
Women“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
Death“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
Respect“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”
Art