Quotes by E. M. Forster

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”