Quotes from book
A Room with a View
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985.
Variant: No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?
Source: A Room with a View
“It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.”
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch.1
“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 14
Source: A Room With A View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 3
Context: The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19
Context: It isn’t possible to love and to 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 from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Source: A Room with a View
“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 2
Source: A Room with a View
