Skip to content

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

— E. M. Forster What I Believe (1938)

Another quote →

More quotes by E. M. Forster

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

A Room with a View (1908)

Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

Commonplace Book (1985)

A humanist has four leading characteristics — curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.

Selected Letters (1983)

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Commonplace Book (1985)

All E. M. Forster quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: E. M. Forster (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.