E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM CHwas an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to Indiabrought him his greatest success. He was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1879
Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .
It isn't possible to love and to part.
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...