E. M. Forster Is Quotations

Love is always being given where it is not required.

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

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

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!

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.