E. M. Forster Quotes

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For More Famous Quotes By E. M. Forster : http://www.quoteswave.com/authors/e-m-forster About : Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. Like video? Subscribe Now - http://www.youtube.com/user/Quoteswave?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Quoteswave --------------------------------------------------------------------- Famous Quotes E. M. Forster (Quotes in Video) : --------------------------------------------------------------------- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. Love is always being given where it is not required. How can I know what I think till I see what I say? The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. Nonsense and beauty have close connections. Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. Unless we remember we cannot understand. Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. Ideas are fatal to caste. Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. History develops, art stands still. ----------------------------- Other Famous Authors' Video : ----------------------------- Jane Austen Quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdHzHhGvtY Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA2bNBPPQI