E. M. Forster

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#classes #discomfort #expense #insist #marvels

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cambridge #inmates #like #love #mere

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#more #paganism #piety #than

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#death #deaths #differ #even #lives

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#alas #gates #glorious #into #our

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#foundation #mind #only #sound #state

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#destruction #english #english countryside #genuine #growth

The final test for 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

#anything #cannot #define #else #final

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

— E. M. Forster

#grief #king #plot #queen #story