Quotes by : E. M. Forster

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling....

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily....

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious....

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.