One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

- E. M. Forster

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

- E. M. Forster

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

- E. M. Forster

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

- E. M. Forster

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

- E. M. Forster

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into…

- E. M. Forster

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I …

- E. M. Forster

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

- E. M. Forster

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

- E. M. Forster