The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often life, but should never be art. — E. M. Forster
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. — E. M. Forster
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone — E. M. Forster
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. — E. M. Forster
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper — E. M. Forster
The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. — E. M. Forster
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. — E. M. Forster
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. — E. M. Forster
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and — 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? — E. M. Forster
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own — E. M. Forster
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am — E. M. Forster
Only connect! that was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion — E. M. Forster
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. — E. M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order — E. M. Forster