Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). (wikipedia)
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.