Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. Forster More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. E. M. Forster eyepeoplelooks 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 immortalitylongpeople The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it. E. M. Forster objectsliteraturemen There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. E. M. Forster atheismsufferinglying Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. E. M. Forster sunshineadventuretravel Love is always being given where it is not required. E. M. Forster literaturelove-islove All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education. E. M. Forster parentessencechildren A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. E. M. Forster abandonedscienceart Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way. E. M. Forster passionbelieveway Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul. E. M. Forster takensoullove 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 easiergivingworld She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. E. M. Forster passionlovemen The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. E. M. Forster sadnessshouldart There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. E. M. Forster sorrowtryingworld 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 good-luckliteraturechildren 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 useselfyears An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. E. M. Forster husbandand-lovemight 'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.' E. M. Forster lastsdreamsleep Though life is very glorious, it is difficult. E. M. Forster gloriousdifficultlife-is So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster democracies-havecheertwo
