E. M. Forster Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”

“Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.”

“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.”

“The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.”

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

“Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.”

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

“Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.”

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

“Ideas are fatal to caste.”