Edward M. Forster
13 quotations
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.