A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

— E.M. Forster

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

— E.M. Forster

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

— E.M. Forster

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

— E.M. Forster

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.

— E.M. Forster

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

— E.M. Forster

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

— E.M. Forster

And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: "Down with the English anyhow. That's certain. Clear out, you fellows, double quick, I say. We may hate one another, but we hate you most. If I don't make you go, Ahmed will, Karim will, if it's fifty-flve hundred years we shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea, and then "—he rode against him furiously— "and then," he concluded, half kissing him, "you and I shall be friends.

— E.M. Forster

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

— E.M. Forster

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.

— E.M. Forster