Quote

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
Biographer
Essayist
Librettist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
EM Forster
Books
Gone
Littles
Little
Farther
Book
Influence
Ready
Particular
Path

More quotes by E. M. Forster

Image
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. Forster
Image
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
E. M. Forster
Image
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
E. M. Forster
Image
Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.
E. M. Forster
Image
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. Forster
Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. Forster
Image
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
E. M. Forster
Image
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E. M. Forster
Image
But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.
E. M. Forster
Image
He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
E. M. Forster
Image
He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
E. M. Forster
Image
I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
E. M. Forster
Image
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.
E. M. Forster
Image
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
E. M. Forster
Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. Forster
Image
I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
E. M. Forster
Image
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
E. M. Forster
Image
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
E. M. Forster
Image
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster
Image
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
E. M. Forster