Top 88 Quotes by E. M. Forster

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

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