Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
E. M. Forster
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Happens
Like
Scheherazade
Husband
Literature
Next
More quotes by E. M. Forster
All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.
E. M. Forster
One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
E. M. Forster
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
E. M. Forster
There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
E. M. Forster
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
All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
E. M. Forster
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster
Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. Forster
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
E. M. Forster
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
E. M. Forster
I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
E. M. Forster
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
E. M. Forster
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
E. M. Forster
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. Forster
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
E. M. Forster
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
E. M. Forster
