Edward M. Forster Quotations

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.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.