Top 88 Quotes by E. M. Forster

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.