E. M. Forster

“Love is always being given where it is not required.”

“Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

“It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.”

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”

“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”

“Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.”

“America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”

“The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”

“Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.”

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

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”

“History develops, art stands still.”

“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”

“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”

“אם היה עליי לבחור בין בגידה במולדת לבגידה בחברי, אני מקווה שהייתי בוחר לבגוד במולדת.”

“אנשים רגישים, מתחשבים באחר, הנחושים בדעתם ניתן למצוא בכל העמים ובכל המעמדות והתקופות.”

“האנשים שאני מעריך יותר מכול הם האנשים הרגישים שרוצים ליצור או לגלות משהו, ואינם רואים את החיים במושגים של כוח.”

“המשטר שמעניק את החופש הגדול ביותר לבני האדם הוא הדמוקרטיה.”