E. M. Forster Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

E. M. Forster quotes and sayings page 6 (novelist). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 88 we have.

“If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.”

“Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.”

“The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”

“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”

“We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.”

“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”

“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.”

“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.”

“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.”