“ Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. E.M. Forster
“ Oh, horrible—worst of all—worse than death, when you have made a little clearing in the wilderness, planted your little garden, let in your sunlight, and then the weeds creep in again! E.M. Forster
“ Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking. E.M. Forster
“ No one, except Ronny, had any idea of what passed in her mind, and he only dimly, for where there is officialism every human relationship suffers. E.M. Forster
“ Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour. E.M. Forster
“ I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in every one, even if you do not approve of them. E.M. Forster
“ I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity.… E.M. Forster
“ He only stopped once, to pick her some great blue violets. She thanked him with real pleasure. In the company of this common man the world was beautiful and direct. For the first time she felt the inf… E.M. Forster
“ For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratit… E.M. Forster
“ And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride permitted her to mate, and had lived on unwed, her age now thirty, and woul… E.M. Forster
“ You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the m… E.M. Forster
“ This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does. He thought. Yes—really in a better way. I want you… E.M. Forster
“ There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav… E.M. Forster
“ The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. E.M. Forster
“ No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her. He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the though… E.M. Forster
“ Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things. E.M. Forster
“ Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. E.M. Forster
“ It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a s… E.M. Forster
