I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. Forster

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.
E. M. Forster

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. Forster

Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
E. M. Forster

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
E. M. Forster

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
E. M. Forster

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. Forster

Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. Forster

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster

No one is India.
E. M. Forster