E. M. Forster

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

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. ”

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

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. ”

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. ”

Nonsense and beauty have close connections. ”

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. ”

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ”

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

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. ”