Quote

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

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
Class
Supports
Age
Bourgeois
Actually
Upbringing
Rather
British
Fact
England
Facts
Constitution
Doesn
Worry
Adheres
Made
Support
Dignified

More quotes by E. M. Forster

Image
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.
E. M. Forster
Image
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster
Image
English literature is a flying fish.
E. M. Forster
Image
Don't be mysterious there isn't the time.
E. M. Forster
Image
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
E. M. Forster
Image
All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
E. M. Forster
Image
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
E. M. Forster
Image
The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
E. M. Forster
Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. Forster
Image
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster
Image
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster
Image
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
E. M. Forster
Image
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
E. M. Forster
Image
She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
E. M. Forster
Image
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
E. M. Forster
Image
Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. Forster
Image
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
E. M. Forster
Image
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
E. M. Forster