“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, i...” — E. M. Forster Quote

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

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.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

People say, 'We remember the good times.' Well I remember the bad times.