“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”
Nature
“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
FreedomAll Quotes by E. M. Forster
“The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
Experience“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“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
Trust“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
Courage“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
Good“Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”
Death“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“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
Art“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
Freedom“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
Truth“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
Beauty“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“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
Women“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.”
Money“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
Faith“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
Death“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“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“History develops, art stands still.”
Art