E.M. Forster

Ideas are fatal to caste.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

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.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.