E. M. Forster Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Character, Empathy

• The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Blue, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

• It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

  E. M. Forster

  Distance, Gentleman, Ears

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.35, RosettaBooks

• Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

  E. M. Forster

  Filth, Pathos, Piety

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

• Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

  E. M. Forster

  Form, Values

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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