Room With A View Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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.

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.

… there are shadows because there are hills.

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