E. M. Forster
  • The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

  • One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  • One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

  • Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

  • I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.