Room With A View Quotes:

... there are shadows because there are hills.

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.444, Delphi Classics

topic: Shadow, Hills, Room With A View

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

- E. M. Forster

source: "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

topic: Fate, Unhappy, Room With A View

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

- E. M. Forster

source: E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.125, Courier Corporation

topic: Girl, Men, Room With A View, Clumsy

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

- E. M. Forster

source: Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1082, Simon and Schuster

topic: Delicacy, Room With A View

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

topic: Moving, Sunshine, Darkness, Darkness To Light, Room With A View

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

- E. M. Forster

topic: Hands, Shields, Faces, Facing The Truth, Ladylike

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.427, Delphi Classics

topic: Differences, Making A Difference, Fence, Room With A View

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

- E. M. Forster

source: E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

topic: Love, Romantic, Romance, Possible Love, Muddle

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Flower, Blue, Views, Lucy, Room With A View

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Room With A View

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

topic: World, Kingdoms, This World, Room With A View

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

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.356, Delphi Classics

topic: People, Speak, Difficult, Room With A View

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

- E. M. Forster

topic: Beautiful, People, Room With A View

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Play, Missing, Exciting, Room With A View

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Lying, Love You, Fighting, Room With A View

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Mistrust, Old Clothes, Deep Life

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Sides, Everlasting, Room With A View

It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

topic: Mean, Men, Names, Room With A View

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Practice, Literature, Life Is, Life Is Easy, Room With A View

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Piano, Rebel, World, Lucy, Patronizing

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Teaching, Fate, Men, Muddle, Room With A View

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Real, Love You, Thinking, Romantic Lines, Room With A View

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Honesty, Men, Soul, Room With A View

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

- E. M. Forster

source: "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

topic: Room With A View

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

topic: Men, Blue, Sky, Giotto, Room With A View

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

- Walter Scott

source: 'The Bride of Lammermoor' (1819) ch. 2

topic: Art, Eye, Hands, Room With A View, Vacant

He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

- Willis George Emerson

topic: I Love You, Ideas, Feelings, Love Literature, Romantic Lines

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Passion, Doe, Sanity, Room With A View

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

- E. M. Forster

topic: Finding Happiness, Boxes, Should, Room With A View

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Views, Negative, Withdrawal, Masters And Slaves, Room With A View

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.

- Peter York

source: "Writers' rooms: Peter York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

topic: Real, Writing, Views, Serious Subjects, Room With A View

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

- Ben Dreyfuss

source: "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

topic: Views, Ponds, Rooms, Room With A View, British Film

Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

- Pema Chodron

source: Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

topic: Peace, Views, Smell, Room With A View