At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Edward 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.
Edward M. Forster
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Edward M. Forster
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Edward M. Forster
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Edward M. Forster
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
Edward 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.
Edward M. Forster
Friendship Quotes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.