The E.M. Forster Collection Quotes

“Her life, he saw, was without meaning. To what purpose was her diplomacy, her insincerity, her continued repression of vigour? Did they make any one better or happier? Did they even bring happiness to herself? Harriet with her gloomy peevish creed, Lilia with her clutches after pleasure, were after all more divine than this well-ordered, active, useless machine.”
― E.M. Forster, The E.M. Forster Collection: 11 Novels and Short Stories

“You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.”
― E.M. Forster, The E.M. Forster Collection: 11 Novels and Short Stories

“There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.”
― E.M. Forster, The E.M. Forster Collection: 11 Novels and Short Stories