Room With A View Quotes

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  E. M. Forster

  Umpires, Shadow, Darkness To Light

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

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• I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

  E. M. Forster

  Shields, Insult, Protected

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Moving, Sunshine, Darkness

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

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• 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

  Differences, Making A Difference, Fence

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

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• 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

  Love, Romantic, Romance

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

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• It isn't possible to love and to part.

  E. M. Forster

  Romantic, Possible Love, True Love Is Forever

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

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• 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

  Flower, Blue, Views

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

  E. M. Forster

  Culture, World, Kingdoms

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

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• I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

  E. M. Forster

  Romantic, Love Is, Poet

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

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

  E. M. Forster

  People, Speak, Difficult

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

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• 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

  Beautiful, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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

  E. M. Forster

  Play, Missing, Exciting

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

  E. M. Forster

  Delicacy

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

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• 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

  Lying, Love You, Fighting

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1475, Simon and Schuster

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Fashion, Clothes, Deep Life

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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

  E. M. Forster

  Sides, Everlasting, Transitory

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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

  E. M. Forster

  Girl, Men, Humans

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

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Names

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

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• Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

  E. M. Forster

  Practice, Literature, Life Is

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.158, Diversion Books

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

  E. M. Forster

  World, Kingdoms, Music Is

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

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• You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

  E. M. Forster

  Romantic, Muddle, True Love Is Forever

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

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• 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

  Piano, Rebel, World

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• ... there are shadows because there are hills.

  E. M. Forster

  Shadow, Hills

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

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• 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 thethings that I might have avoided.

  E. M. Forster

  Fate, Sound, Looks

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.656, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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