E. M. Forster

(1879-1970)

• " There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness.  I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster.  It would have helped me no end."
  • Howard's End (1910) (ch. 15)

• " Only connect!  That was the whole of her sermon.  Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.  Live in fragments no longer.  Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. "
  • Howard's End (1910) (ch. 22)

• "Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."
  • A Passage to India (1924)

• "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
  • Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

• "Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give it three."
  • Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)